tuberculosis meaning in Punjabi
ਖਈ khaī
/tjuːˌbɜːkjʊˈləʊsɪs/
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tuberculosis in Punjabi: ਖਈ (khaī). In English, tuberculosis means an infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria.
Punjabi words for tuberculosis
- tuberculosis, phthisis, pulmonary consumption
- ਖਈ khaī
English meaning of tuberculosis
- noun An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria.
Synonyms of tuberculosis
- consumption
- phthisic
- TB
- white death
- white man's plague
- white plague
tuberculosis in other languages
- tuberculosis in Hindi
- tuberculosis in Tamil
- tuberculosis in Urdu
- tuberculosis in Bengali
- tuberculosis in Telugu
- tuberculosis in Malayalam
- tuberculosis in Kannada
- tuberculosis in Gujarati
- tuberculosis in Sanskrit
- tuberculosis in Nepali
- tuberculosis in Tagalog
- tuberculosis in Arabic
- tuberculosis in Malay
- tuberculosis in Indonesian
- tuberculosis in Persian
- tuberculosis in Thai
- tuberculosis in Vietnamese
Questions about tuberculosis in Punjabi
- What is the meaning of tuberculosis in Punjabi?
- Tuberculosis in Punjabi is ਖਈ (khaī).
- tuberculosis ਦਾ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੀ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ?
- Tuberculosis: ਖਈ (khaī).
- What does tuberculosis mean in English?
- Tuberculosis means an infectious disease of humans and animals caused by a species of mycobacterium, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mainly infecting the lungs where it causes tubercles characterized by the expectoration of mucus and sputum, fever, weight loss, and chest pain, and transmitted through inhalation or ingestion of bacteria.
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Punjabi words from Wiktionary's Punjabi entries whose English meaning is “tuberculosis”: ਖਈ. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: tuberculosis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Punjabi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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