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miliary tuberculosis n acute tuberculosis in which minute tubercles are formed in one or more organs of the body by tubercle bacilli usu. spread by way of the blood
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acute generalized tuberculosis characterized by lesions in affected organs, which resemble millet seeds.
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a type of tuberculosis that varies from a chronic, slowly progressive, debilitating infection to an acute fulminating disease; it is caused by hematogenous or lymphohematogenous dissemination of infected material into the bloodstream with seeding of many organs with miliary tubercles. See also t. miliaris disseminata. Called also disseminated t.Medical dictionary. 2011.