Definition of "miliary tuberculosis" []

• An acute form of tuberculosis characterized by very small tubercles in various body organs, caused by the spread of tubercle bacilli through the bloodstream. (noun)

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• "Binswanger states that tuberculosis, aside from miliary tuberculosis or meningitis, produces no mental disorder except phenomena of the amentia of exhaustion."
• "Acute miliary tuberculosis may produce the impression of a general paresis or of an amentia in Meynert's sense."