tuberculous
Speech parts
1. tuberculous - Adjective
2. tuberculous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.
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Examples
a tubercular child
tuberculous patients
tubercular meningitis
If someone does become infected, it typically takes three to four weeks before the newly infected person becomes infectious enough to transmit the disease to others. citation Pathogenesis Microscopy of tuberculous epididymitis.
During 1837–38 the poet was struck with illness again, with symptoms today suggesting tuberculous ulceration of the lungs.
In the same year he obtained a doctorate in medicine (MD) from the same university for a dissertation titled "The treatment of tuberculous meningitis".