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Tubercular   Listen
adjective
Tubercular  adj.  
1.
Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.
2.
Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
3.
(Med.) Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.





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"Tubercular" Quotes from Famous Books



... or become complicated with it. Dr. Hall asks, in what does the peculiarity of Negro Consumption consist? It consists in being an anoematosis and not a tuberculosis. Not having seen my Report, he may have inferred that it was a tubercular disease—whereas it is an erythism of mind connected with spanoemia. Negroes, however, are sometimes, though rarely, afflicted with tubercula pulmonum, or Phthisis, properly so called, which has some peculiarities. With them it is more palpably a secondary disease ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various


Words linked to "Tubercular" :   sufferer, tubercle, sick person, sick, tuberculosis, ill


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