BCG

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
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Russian: БЦЖ (ru) (BCŽ)
Spanish: BCG m

See also

BCG vaccine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

CBG, CGB, GBC, GCB

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