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English
Etymology
Abbreviations.
Noun
BCG pl (plural only)
- (US, military slang) Initialism of birth control glasses.
- Synonym: BCGs
Noun
BCG (plural BCGs)
- (medicine) Initialism of bacillus of Calmette and Guérin (“Bacille Calmette-Guérin”)., a vaccine for tuberculosis developed by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin
- (astronomy) Initialism of brightest cluster galaxy.
- (astronomy) Initialism of blue compact galaxy.
Synonyms
- (blue compact galaxy): BCD
Translations
bacillus of Calmette and Guérin
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 卡介苗 (zh) (kǎjièmiáo)
- Finnish: Calmette-rokote
- French: BCG (fr) m
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- Russian: БЦЖ (ru) (BCŽ)
- Spanish: BCG m
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See also
BCG vaccine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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