tubercular

/tjˈuːbəkjˌʊlɐ/

/tˈuːbɚkjˌʊlɚ/

Tubercular

a person with pulmonary tuberculosis

tubercular

relating to or suffering from tuberculosis, a severe and contagious infection that mainly affects one's lungs

pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle

characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles

constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus

Examples

1. So, the tubercular and the malarial died massively during influenza pandemics.

2. Emily Brontë, who died of tuberculosis herself in 1848 at the age of 30, included several tubercular characters in her work.

3. Dresses and corsets also tended to emphasize the emaciated bodies that tubercular victims had.

4. So first he started with strep, and then the tubercular bacilliaie.