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Tuberculosis(medicine)
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Pan-Turkism (sh) and tuberculosis (iou)


Pan-Turkism (sh)




Political movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had as its goal the political union of all Turkic-speaking peoples in the Ottoman Empire, Russia, China, Iran, and Afghanistan.

The movement, which began among the Turks in the Crimea and on the Volga, initially sought to unite the Turks of the Ottoman and Russian empires against growing Russian domination. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of the Republic of Turkey, later de-emphasized Pan-Turkism, encouraging Turkish nationalism only within Turkey. See also Ismail Gasprinski; Enver Pasha; Young Turks.


tuberculosis (iou)



tuberculosis noun. . M19.
[mod. Latin, from Latin tuberculum TUBERCLE + -OSIS.]
Medicine & Veterinary Medicine. Orig., any disease characterized by the formation of tubercles. Now spec. a disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis (or, esp. in animals, by a related bacillus) and characterized by the formation of nodular lesions or tubercles in the tissues. Abbreviation TB.
miliary tuberculosis: see MILIARY adjective2 2. pulmonary tuberculosis: characterized by primary infection of the lungs, with fever, night sweating, Weight Loss, and spitting of blood; also called consumption, phthisis.