BCG

See also: bcg

English

Noun

BCG pl (plural only)

1. (US, military slang) Initialism of birth control glasses, US military or prison issued eyeglasses, often regarded as ugly.

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

Proper noun

BCG

1. Initialism of Boston Consulting Group, a large US management consulting firm.
   • 2025 July 5, Stephen Foley, “BCG modelled relocation plan for Palestinians”, in FT Weekend, page 1:

     BCG's role was more extensive than it had publicly described, according to people familiar with the project […] .

Further reading

• BCG vaccine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CBG, CGB, GBC, GCB

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

BCG

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈt͡ʃe.ɡe/, [beˈt͡ʃe.ɡe]

Noun

BCG (uncountable)

1. (medicine) initialism of bacillus of Calmette and Guérin (“Bacille Calmette-Guérin”), a vaccine for tuberculosis developed by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin

Further reading

• “BCG”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016