tuberculoid

IPA: tubɝkjʌɫɔɪd

Examples of "tuberculoid" in Sentences

Healthy people only get a milder 'tuberculoid' kind of leprosy.
For tuberculoid leprosy take both of these for at least 6 months:
- The action on the tuberculoid type is quite slow, about 2 to 6 weeks.
There should be a distinction made between tuberculoid and lepromatous leprosy.
BORDERLINE LEPROSY combines features of both tuberculoid and lepromatous leprosy.
It greatly reduces the time needed for treatment, especially for tuberculoid leprosy.
For paucibacillary leprosy (borderline-tuberculoid, tuberculoid and indeterminate), it uses two-drug regimen.
Patients with tuberculoid leprosy are less infectious but are more likely to suffer paralysis of peripheral nerves.
If there are light-colored skin patches with loss of sensation but no lumps or thickened skin, then the person probably has tuberculoid leprosy and only 2 medicines are required.
Depending on where it falls along the line between the two extremes, borderline leprosy is divided into: borderline tuberculoid (BT), borderline (BB), and borderline lepromatous (BL).