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tuberculous

[too-bur-kyuh-luhs, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjə ləs, tjʊ- /
ADJECTIVE
tubercular
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Diseases like the Spanish flu and tuberculous raced through the overcrowded schools.

From New York Times Jul. 25, 2022

Disease, particularly tuberculous and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed World War I, swept through the overcrowded dorms.

From New York Times Jul. 5, 2021

He was a frail, tuberculous stalk of a fellow with a hatchet face crowned on a high dome with an inverted bowl of reddish hair cut in bangs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hollow-chested, tuberculous Jeanson escaped the police raid that caught his followers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Similar experiments with reference to the introduction of lupus-tissue produced results suggestive of tubercle, if not actually tuberculous.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various




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