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Tuberculous   Listen
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Tuberculous, Tuberculose  adj.  Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.






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"Tuberculous" Quotes from Famous Books



... protective measures have already told effectively upon the death rate for tuberculous diseases. In the three years ending with 1908, deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis dropped from 226.6 ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling

... they do, they are subject to early abortions. They are, therefore, useless alike for the dairy and for the feeder, unless the removal of the ovaries subdues the sexual excitement, when, in the absence of tuberculous disease elsewhere, they may be fattened for ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... the public conscience needs a thorough rousing. If a mother deliberately gave her daughter a draught which made her a cripple, or an invalid, or an imbecile, or tuberculous, everybody would cry out with horror, and she would become a social outcast. But if she inflicts these injuries on her granddaughter, by marrying her daughter to a drunkard, in the hope of reforming him, or to a wealthy degenerate, ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... joints will be amenable to examination by this method. Figure 10 shows an elbow joint with tuberculous disease. The bones of the arm and forearm are clearly seen, and between them, is a light area due to granulation-tissue, or to fluid, probably of tuberculous nature, which is translucent to the rays. The picture confirms the prior diagnosis ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various

... the question of phthisis and mental disease, Ziehen remarks that the tuberculous are often observed to be optimistic but that other cases show a hypochondriacal depression with egocentric narrowing of interests. He speaks of a sort of rudimentary delusional disorder looking in the ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10



Words linked to "Tuberculous" :   ill, tubercular, tubercle, sick



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