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tuberculous

[too-bur-kyuh-luhs, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjə ləs, tjʊ- /
ADJECTIVE
tubercular
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Diseases like the Spanish flu and tuberculous raced through the overcrowded schools.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022

Disease, particularly tuberculous and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed World War I, swept through the overcrowded dorms.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2021

Hollow-chested, tuberculous Jeanson escaped the police raid that caught his followers.

From Time Magazine Archive

This mistake cost taxpayers one billion dollars for the care of tuberculous veterans.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fourteen years anterior to the researches of Koch, Hering, Swan and Biegler availed themselves, as a homœopathic remedy, of the maceration of tuberculous lungs, and of the sputa of tuberculous subjects.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz




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