T.B.
n : infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle
bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions
(usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the
body in acute stages) [syn: tuberculosis, TB]
Tb
n 1: a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers;
occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and
ytterbite [syn: terbium, atomic number 65]
2: infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle
bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually
in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in
acute stages) [syn: tuberculosis, T.B.]
3: a unit of information equal to a trillion
(1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 1024 gigabytes [syn: terabyte,
T]