HyperDic: king[s_evil

English > 1 sense of the expression king's evil:
NOUNstateking's evil, scrofula, strumaa form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands
English > king's evil: 1 sense > noun 1, state
MeaningA form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands.
Synonymsscrofula, struma
Broadertuberculosis, TB, T.B.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 / stages)
Spanishescrófula
Catalanescrófula, escròfula

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