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Categories: Diseases named for discoverer, Bacterial diseases, Vertebral column disorders
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Pott's disease  Pott disease  Pott's curvature  spinal tuberculosis  Tubercular spondylitis
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TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine WordNet 3.0
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TB of the spine with destruction of vertebrae resulting in curvature of the spine WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Pott's disease, or Pott disease, named for British surgeon Percivall Pott who first described the symptoms in 1799, is tuberculosis of the spine, usually due to haematogenous spread from other sites, often the lungs. Wikipedia
A form of tuberculosis Wikipedia Disambiguation
A presentation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis that affects the spine, a kind of tuberculous arthritis of the intervertebral joints. Wiktionary
Type of tuberculosis. Wiktionary (translation)