Meanings
- not comparableTubercular: having or relating to tuberculosis.
1 more example
Not only for the adult excluded from work because of his infirmity, but also for the child excluded from the school because of its being tuberculous or predisposed must suitable provision for its cure and education be provided in preventorial and open air schools, the value of which has already been emphasized.
1907, Nova Scotia. Dept. of Public Health, Report, page 35 - not comparableHaving or relating to tubercles.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveconstituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latintuberculum“little lump”
- Englishtuberculous
From Latin tuberculum (“little lump”) + -ous.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech tuberkulózní
- tuberkulózníof tuberculosis
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