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tubercular

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Tubercular bacilli pass through the digestive tract of flies and remain virulent.

From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur

As the ulcerative changes take place, new Tubercular Syphiloderm.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

Tubercular animals show an elevation in temperature that comes on about the eighth or twelfth hour of the test.

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



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