tubercularadj.n.

1753 W. Hird Remarks Pestilence & Pestilential Dis. 24 In general the skin became moist and yeilding [sic], with sensible inequalities, or tubercular asperities in several parts of it, though without any very material discharge.

1773 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave XVIII. Gen. Index at Consumption Explanation and cure of a tubercular consumption.

1784 Med. Communications 1 279 Besides, in tubercular cases, the symptoms are at first exceedingly obscure.

1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 297 A portion of the pulmonary tissue..impregnated with grey tubercular matter.

1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. i. i. 68 A..tendency of organs to become tubercular.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 10 Nov. 8/2 He did not recommend..the removal of every tubercular cow from our dairies and cow-sheds.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 805 Tubercular syphilide... The term ‘tubercular’ used above refers solely to the gross infiltration of the skin causing raised nodules, and has..no relation to the tubercle bacillus.

1919 Outing Mar. 311/1 The Kramer family physician, seeing that Frank was tubercular, advised the use of a wheel.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 239 [Nodular (leprosy).] This variety is often called ‘tubercular.’ The term is objectionable, as it suggests an association with the tubercle bacillus.

1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic vii. 192 This was the healing ritual for the King's Evil, the name given to scrofula or struma, the tubercular inflammation of the lymph glands of the neck.

2003 Jrnl. Archaeol. Res. 11 55 In the case of leprosy, individuals with a strong immune system manifest a less severe form of the disease, ‘tubercular’ leprosy.

2012 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 2 Nov. I was impressed by the suggestion that dogs could be trained to detect tubercular badgers.

1830 E. T. Bennett Gardens & Menagerie Zool. Soc. I. 212 The teeth [of the European Fox] consist..of three false molars, one lacerator, and two tuberculars on each side of the upper jaw.

1836 Asiatic Researches 19 i. 197 The two anterior false molars and the last tubercular have dropped out, but the sockets remain unobliterated.

1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 260 In Miacis and Didymictis one tubercular-sectorial remains with one or more tuberculars.

1902 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 16 129 It would seem to be an intermediate form, like Dinocyon in the carnassial, like Hemicyon in the tuberculars.

1888 Public Health 1 180/2 Von Wehde..concluded, the expelled air of the tubercular could not infect, and that also tuberculous sputum so long as it was moist released no spores.

1920 H. P. Davison Amer. Red Cross in Great War xii. 153 A great part of them were ill,..while the tubercular were an army in themselves.

1952 Sun (Baltimore) 2 July 14/3 Maryland has three State institutions for the chronically sick, four hospitals for tuberculars, and four for the mentally ill.

1977 S. Sontag Illness as Metaphor ii. 17 The dying tubercular is pictured as made more beautiful and more soulful.

2005 Libr. Jrnl. Rev. (Nexis) 1 Apr. 103 He argues that the idea of ‘heroic melancholy’ is simply a way our culture has developed to cope with a disorder that we can't cure—analogous to the way that tuberculars were once thought to be especially sensitive and creative.

1839 J. A. Warder tr. A. Trousseau & H. Belloc Pract. Treat. Laryngeal Phthisis 186 The patients..may esteem themselves fortunate, if the constant contact of a foreign body with the tracheal mucous membrane does not excite unpleasant reaction in the lungs, and, finally, tubercularisation [Fr. tuberculisation].

1843 F. H. Ramadge Curability of Consumption (1850) 55 The more this tissue is expanded, the less susceptibility does it retain of fresh tubercularization.

1933 Brit. Jrnl. Tuberculosis 27 147 The Indians in Manitoba and in the Brant Reserve in Ontario showed a lower mortality than those in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta; this is probably explained by a higher condition of tubercularization due to a longer..association with the early white tuberculosis-infecting population.

2009 H. S. Schaaf & A. I. Zumla Tuberculosis x. civ. 925/1 A theory of ‘virgin soil’ populations emerged which attributed high rates of TB mortality among white peoples to the lack of ‘tubercularization’ or disease resistance.

1845 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 20 99 The bronchial glands were more or less extensively tubercularized in 100 of 112 cases.

1889 Science 13 Sept. 177/1 Spittoons..should never be emptied on dung-heaps, [or] on garden-soil (where they may tubercularize fowl).

1920 Med. Rev. of Reviews 26 629/2 According to the researches of Bernard (1914), of Von Pirquet and others, very soon after birth people begin to be tubercularized; that is to say, they are, at this time, exposed to their first infection.

1834 G. Don Gen. Hist. Dichlamydeous Plants III. 133/2 Leaves connate, compressed, triquetrous, more green than the others, tubercularly dotted, usually shorter than the internodes.

1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 260 Having found a characteristic..bacillus in all tubercularly altered organs.

1916 C. D. Jarvis Gardening Elem. City Schools 16 Much is heard of open-air schools for anemic and tubercularly inclined children.

1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions i. v. 188 A healthy baritone voice from a girl with a tubercularly collapsed chest.

1989 Florida Entomologist 72 663 Cristae broadly and a little tubercularly carinate.

2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) vii. 159 The engine coughed tubercularly to my start-up and then shut out.