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tuberculous

[too-bur-kyuh-luhs, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kyə ləs, tyʊ- /
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

Sea View, which housed 1,500 tuberculous patients in 1951, now has only 21, is being turned mainly into a hospital and home for the aged.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was a frail, tuberculous stalk of a fellow with a hatchet face crowned on a high dome with an inverted bowl of reddish hair cut in bangs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tuberculous inflammation was regarded as a primary condition, while the acute miliary tuberculosis was a secondary process resulting from infection.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various