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Tubercular

adjective
1.
Characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles.
2.
Pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle.
3.
Relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it.
4.
Constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus.  Synonym: tuberculous.  "Tuberculous patients" , "Tubercular meningitis"
noun
1.
A person with pulmonary tuberculosis.  Synonyms: consumptive, lunger.






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"Tubercular" Quotes from Famous Books



... he had been in too excited a state to sleep. All night he moaned and tossed—the next morning he was delirious. The prospect of deliverance from his life of drudgery had been too much for him and had resulted in brain fever. The doctor said he had a bad cold, then finally announced that tubercular complications had set in, and as nearly as Von Barwig could find out the boy was now rapidly wasting away with the dreaded white disease. Von Barwig looked around him helplessly; the light was bad, the air rank poison and the ...
— The Music Master - Novelized from the Play • Charles Klein

... chronic disease of the head of the humerus (generally tubercular), or of chronic ulceration of the cartilages which has resisted counter-irritation. Cases of gunshot injury of the joint, or of compound dislocation, or fracture involving the joint. Cases of limited tumours affecting merely the head and upper third of the bone, and non-malignant in character. ...
— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

... audience. His remarks on climates, food, and customs of the natives, in reference to the origin and spread of disease, evinced the same acuteness of observation which characterized all the records of his life. He specially commented on the absence of consumption and all forms of tubercular disease among the natives, and connected this with their ...
— The Personal Life Of David Livingstone • William Garden Blaikie

... wonderful tales of the valley. After that we had Indians with us all the time. They brought their sick children and their old people, and the results were marvelous. I never knew the stream to fail. Even the tubercular people soon began to grow rosy and well. The food seemed to have healing power, too, and some who came hollow-cheeked, feverish, choking with their cruel paroxysms of coughing, soon began to grow fat and healthy. At first the sick people just ...
— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung

... surroundings, would have repelled him. He did not care to see Mademoiselle Bernhardt a second time in the role, and he fled from the powerful and fascinating portrayal of pulmonary emotion which initiated the audiences of Clara Morris into the terrors of tubercular disease. Night after night, when Modjeska played Camille, Field would occupy a front seat or a box. When so seated that his presence could not be overlooked from the stage, he was wont to divert Camille from her woes with the by-play ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson


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