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UK
/tjˈuːbəkjˌʊlɐ/
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ADJECTIVE
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relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it
a tubercular hospital -
constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus
a tubercular child
tubercular meningitis
tuberculous patients -
pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle
a tubercular process for the attachment of a ligament or muscle -
characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles
tubercular leprosy
NOUN
- a person with pulmonary tuberculosis
How To Use tubercular In A Sentence
- One reason TB-control programs are so important is that antitubercular drugs are such tricky instruments. Tuberculosis: A Deadly Return
- Both caseation and calcification are highly suggestive of a tubercular etiology, neither being common in malignancy related lymphadenopathy.
- In some instances lameness is mixed as in joint ailments, involvement of the bicipital bursa (bursa intertubercularis), etc. In affections of the extremity there exists supporting leg lameness. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
- When well advanced, the tubercular or nodular masses give rise to great deformity; the face, a favorite locality, becomes more or less leonine in appearance (_leontiasis_). Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
- In them changes take place that prove the specific antitubercular action of the remedy in a most surprising way. Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated
- tubercular leprosy
- a tubercular child
- Pearl used statistical methods to determine whether tubercular lesions found during these autopsies were correlated with cancer.
- Improvements in nutrition, hygiene and hospital care had kept the disease in almost steady decline throughout the first half of the century, and the free fall had continued since the advent of antitubercular drugs in the 1950s. Tuberculosis: A Deadly Return
- That the opera's third act, with its customs office, had to be relocated to the Franco-Belgian border, whither the tubercular and penniless Mimi could hardly have dragged herself, is the least of its problems.
