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What (who) is tubercular - definition
tubercular
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Tuberculate; Tubercular (disambiguation)
Tubercular means suffering from, relating to, or causing tuberculosis.
...tubercular patients...
He died of tubercular meningitis.
...tubercular bacteria.
ADJ
tubercular
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Tuberculate; Tubercular (disambiguation)
[tj?'b?:kj?l?]
¦ adjective
1. Medicine relating to or affected with tuberculosis.
2. Biology & Medicine having or covered with tubercles.
¦ noun a person with tuberculosis.
Tubercular
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Tuberculate; Tubercular (disambiguation)
·adj Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.
II. Tubercular ·adj Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.
III. Tubercular ·adj Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.
Examples of use of tubercular
1. Fiennes stars as the tubercular lodger at an oppressive south–London home – an aspiring artist who might be brilliant and, then again, might not.
2. The bouncers looked as though they would like nothing more than to hospitalise the audience of tubercular–looking goths and weedy indie fans.
3. Increasingly sick and tubercular, he finally accepted the offer of more solid lodging on Bance Island, preaching to the white slavers and artisans and to bemused slaves, who understood nothing of his prayers and sermons.
4. Though she nursed Modigliani devotedly when he fell ill with tubercular meningitis, there is implicit criticism from some that she never called a doctor or tidied the alcohol bottles and sardine cans from the deathbed.
5. Drunken, ranting and stoned on one thing or another – add hash, coke, ether and opium to the alcohol –Modigliani, the archetypal cursed artist, the peintre maudit, rattled round Paris, between studios, salons, bars and lovers from 1'06, when he arrived from Livorno, until his death, from tubercular meningitis, in 1'20.