tuberculous
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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
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When a tuberculous cow is dead, the chief danger of spreading TB is past.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Koch's lymph is an extract in glycerine of dead tuberculous bacilli.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock