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KING'S EVIL

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Dictionary entry overview: What does king's evil mean?

• KING'S EVIL (noun)
The noun KING'S EVIL has 1 sense:

1. a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands

Familiarity information: KING'S EVIL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• KING'S EVIL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

king's evil; scrofula; struma

Hypernyms ("king's evil" is a kind of...):

T.B.; TB; tuberculosis (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))

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