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Definition of: tuberculin
(t
·būr′kyə·lin, ty-) noun Bacteriol.
A sterile liquid prepared from attenuated cultures of the tubercle bacillus, used especially as a test for tuberculosis in children and animals. Also tu·ber′cu·line (-lin, -lên). [<L tuberculum TUBERCLE + -IN]
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