BCG

English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

BCG pl (plural only)

1. (US, military slang) Initialism of birth control glasses.

   Synonym: BCGs

Noun

BCG (plural BCGs)

1. (medicine) Initialism of bacillus of Calmette and Guérin (“Bacille Calmette-Guérin”)., a vaccine for tuberculosis developed by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin
2. (astronomy) Initialism of brightest cluster galaxy.
3. (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