Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or covered with tubercles; tuberculate.
- adjective Of, relating to, or affected with tuberculosis.
- noun A person having tuberculosis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed like a tubercle; forming a tubercle; shaped into a little tuber or tuberosity: as, tubercular elevations.
- Having tubercles; tuberculate.
- In pathology, characterized by the presence of tubercles; of or pertaining to tuberculosis; tuberculous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.
- adjective Like a tubercle.
- adjective (Med.) Characterized by the development of tubercles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or having
tuberculosis - adjective
Tuberculate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle
- adjective characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles
- adjective relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it
- adjective constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus
- noun a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
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Examples
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There among the tubercular coughers she ministered to, he spoke to a small group of attendees, still seeking forgiveness for his SIOP role.
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Rocquefort was posing as a visitor to a sanatorium, which was not a stretch since he actually suffered from a tubercular condition in his left lung, while Marret would be a farm machinery salesman.
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The sound of all those women with that special tubercular cough, wet lungs ripping, and the spit of blood after, echoed through the hall.
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The sound of all those women with that special tubercular cough, wet lungs ripping, and the spit of blood after, echoed through the hall.
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And into each, a little falls: south Seattle, tubercular gray October.
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