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Definition of Tubercular

1. Noun. A person with pulmonary tuberculosis.

2. Adjective. Characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles. "Tubercular leprosy"

3. Adjective. Pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle. "A tubercular process for the attachment of a ligament or muscle"

4. Adjective. Relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it. "A tubercular hospital"

5. Adjective. Constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus. "Tubercular meningitis"

Definition of Tubercular

1. a. Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

Definition of Tubercular

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis ¹

2. Adjective. Tuberculate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tubercular

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Medical Definition of Tubercular

1. Of, pertaining to or resembling tubercles or nodules. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tubercular

tubercle tubercle bacillus tubercle of anterior scalene muscle tubercle of iliac crest tubercle of nucleus gracilis tubercle of rib tubercle of saddle tubercle of scaphoid bone tubercle of tooth tubercle of trapezium

tubercle of upper lip tubercled tubercles tubercula tubercula dolorosa tubercular (current term) tuberculars tuberculate tuberculated tuberculation

tubercule tubercules tuberculid tuberculiform tuberculin tuberculin-type hypersensitivity tuberculin skin test tuberculin test tuberculin tine test tuberculins

Literary usage of Tubercular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"tubercular CASES. One of the major problems of reconstruction in Canada consisted in the treatment of tubercular cases. Many of the men who developed active ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Of the 17 cases of tubercular sinuses at first treated with this injection material ... Four large tubercular abscesses, two psoas and two hip, were opened, ..."

3. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"The other form of tubercular testis is characterized by more special symptoms and local conditions. It may involve, as already stated, either the body of ..."

4. The Surgical Clinics of North America by Robert E. Hermann, Avram M. Cooperman (1922)
"FRANK H. LAHEY BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL tubercular GLANDS OF NECK AND SPINAL ACCESSORY PARALYSIS' WE are concerned today largely with the occurrence of ..."

5. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"In the great majority of cases a primary focus of tubercular infection is ... Though tubercular infection of the soft brain-coverings may occur at any aye ..."

6. Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children by Thomas Morgan Rotch (1896)
"N'on-tubercular meningitis in its acute form is a disease which may ;k robust as well as debilitated children, and may occur at all ages. ..."

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