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Tubercular

adjective

Characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles.

Pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle.

Relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it.

Constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus. Synonym: tuberculous. "Tuberculous patients" , "Tubercular meningitis"

noun

A person with pulmonary tuberculosis. Synonyms: consumptive, lunger.

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... is found in the generative organs. Tubercular derangements are frequently met with in the testicles of men, less often in the ...

— Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated • Max Birnbaum

... down it until the Gap was absolutely sealed. So ends the episode which has caused such excitement throughout the country. Local opinion is fiercely divided upon the subject. On the one hand are those who point to Dr. Hardcastle's impaired health, and to the possibility of cerebral lesions of tubercular origin giving rise to strange hallucinations. Some idee fixe, according to these gentlemen, caused the doctor to wander down the tunnel, and a fall among the rocks was sufficient to account for his injuries. On the other hand, a legend of a strange creature in the Gap has existed for ...

— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... such reconciliation must exist. Possibly if we interpret Lombroso's phrase, "inherited tendency towards crime" or "predisposition towards crime" in the same way as we interpret the term ("predisposition towards disease") when speaking of tubercular persons (or, as Mercier speaks of the insane), that is as persons, who in a given favourable environment, are more likely to commit crime than persons without that inherited tendency, we may find these theories to be more ...

— A Plea for the Criminal • James Leslie Allan Kayll

... laboriosity, really worthy of respect—what charlatanism! What great names exploited as a shop sample! How many sages turned into proprietors of sanatoriums! . . . A Herr Professor discovers the cure of tuberculosis, and the tubercular keep on dying as before. Another labels with a number the invincible remedy for the most unconfessable of diseases, and the genital scourge continues afflicting the world. And all these errors were representing great fortunes, each saving panacea ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... around them. Of the former was Doc Holliday, a tubercular gunman with the irascible disposition which some invalids own, who had drifted hither from Colorado. Among the latter were the Clanton brothers and Frank Stilwell, who robbed the stage and rustled cattle for a living. John Ringo, who was really the brains of the outlaws, ...

— When the West Was Young • Frederick R. Bechdolt

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