Tuberculous

tuberculous







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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    有結節的,結節狀的

          2.    患結核病的





The Columbia Guide to Standard American English



tubercular, tuberculous (adjs.) 

   

Tubercular is an adjective with two senses, a general one applying to anything having or characterized by tubercules, and a specific one applying to anyone having the disease tuberculosis, as in His mother was tubercular, you know. 



Tuberculous is simply a synonym of tubercular. 



Both have had relatively low frequency of use since the disease has become scarcer, but the recent increase in drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis probably means that both words will remain active in the general vocabulary.