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tuberaceae |
tuberales |
tubercle |
tubercle bacillus |
tubercled |
tubercular
| tubercularia
| tuberculariaceae
| tubercularize
| tuberculate
| tuberculated
tubercular
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tubercular has 1 sense
- tubercular(n = noun.person) consumptive, lunger - a person with pulmonary tuberculosis; Array is a kind of diseased person, sick person, sufferer
Adjective tubercular has 4 senses
- tubercular(a = adj.pert) Array - characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles; "tubercular leprosy" Derived forms noun tubercle1, noun tuberculosis1
- tubercular(a = adj.pert) Array - pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle; "a tubercular process for the attachment of a ligament or muscle" Derived form noun tubercle3
- tubercular(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it; "a tubercular hospital" Derived form noun tuberculosis1
- tubercular(s = adj.all) tuberculous - constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis" Derived forms noun tubercle1, noun tuberculosis1
CIDE DICTIONARY
tubercular, a.
- Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate. [1913 Webster]
- Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence. [1913 Webster]
- Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tubercular, adj. & n.
--adj. of or having tubercles or tuberculosis.
--n. a person with tuberculosis.
--adj. of or having tubercles or tuberculosis.
--n. a person with tuberculosis.
Etymology
f. L tuberculum (as TUBERCLE)
THESAURUS
tubercular
allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arthritic, bilious, burled, cancerous, chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, dropsical, dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, gnarled, gnarly, knobbed, knobby, knoblike, knotted, knotty, knurled, knurly, laryngitic, leprous, luetic, malarial, malignant, measly, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, nodal, noded, nodiform, nodular, nodulated, noduled, nubbled, nubbly, nubby, palsied, paralytic, phthisic, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, rachitic, rheumatic, rickety, scorbutic, scrofulous, studded, tabetic, tabid, torose, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous, tumorigenic, tumorous
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