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tubercular

[too-bur-kyuh-ler, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjə lər, tjʊ- /
ADJECTIVE
having tuberculosis
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Tubercular as a child, she was sent to convent school by her parents after they divorced.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tubercular lungs struggle to fill their pleural compartments; they get no opportunity to rest and heal the sores that tuberculosis germs are eating into their tissues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tubercular derangements are frequently met with in the testicles of men, less often in the ovaries of women.

From Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated by Brendecke, Fr. (Friedrich)

Tubercular growths may appear on the surface of the body.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

Tubercular disease, particularly pulmonary consumption, is not so much seen as in the interior of Kentucky.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben



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