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tuberculous

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


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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

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

When a tuberculous cow is dead, the chief danger of spreading TB is past.

From Time Magazine Archive

Koch's lymph is an extract in glycerine of dead tuberculous bacilli.

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