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Definition: Tubercular |
TubercularAdjective1. Characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles; "tubercular leprosy". 2. Pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle; "a tubercular process for the attachment of a ligament or muscle". 3. Relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it; "a tubercular hospital". 4. Constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus; "a tubercular child"; "tuberculous patients"; "tubercular meningitis". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tubercular" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Of, pertaining to, or resembling tubercles or nodules. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TubercularSynonym: tuberculous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tubercular |
| English words defined with "tubercular": Diapophysis ♦ Hydrocephaloid affection ♦ Tuberculated, tuberculous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tubercular" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (tubercular), Romanian (tuberculed), Spanish (tubercular). |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Tuberculosis Hospital, St. Eugenie, France. : Front view of the hospital which is for tubercular women. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Home of agricultural day laborer's family who cared for his tubercular wife and two children. Poteau Creek near Spiro, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Daughter of agricultural day laborer and his tubercular wife in bedroom of shack home on Poteau Creek near Spiro, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Test tubes containing bovine tubercular bacteria at Division of Pathology, United States Department of Agriculture Experimental Farm, Beltsville, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wife and sick child of tubercular itinerant, stranded in New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Part of an impoverished family of nine on a New Mexico highway. Depression refugees from Iowa. Left Iowa in 1932 because of father's ill health. Father an auto mechanic laborer, painter by trade, tubercular. Family has been on relief in Arizona but refuse. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family of nine who are stranded and penniless in New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Babe Ruth selling Tubercular Christmans Seals in the lobby of Keiths Theater, Washington, D.C., where he is appearing this week. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Tubercular" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Tubercular" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Unclassified Items | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tubercular": tubercular glands. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "tubercular": anti-tubercular. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
meningitis tubercular | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tubercular"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gungor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسلول (drawn, tuberculous), سلي (tuberculous), درني. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | туберкулозен (consumptive, hectic, phthisic, tuberculous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 瘵 (foci of tubercular infection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tuberkulózní (tuberculous), nádorový. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tuberkuløs (phthisic), tuberøs (nodular). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tuberculeus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مسلول 1, سلی , ازخی , ازخ دار, برامدگی دار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tuberkuloottinen (tuberculous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tuberculeux (tuberculous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tuberkulös (tuberculous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φυματιώδης, φυματικόσ (consumptive, tuberculous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gumós (bulbous, tuberose, tuberous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | berbonggol (gnarled, tuberous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tubercolare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bentyn da gorley shymlee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uberculartay tubercular. (various references) tuberculos (consumptive, hectic, phthisic). (various references) туберкулезный (consumptive, phthisic, phthisis, tuberculous). (various references) kvrgav (callous, gnarled, knaggy, knotty, snaggy, tuberous), koji ima tuberkule, čvornovat (gnarled, gnarly, knaggy, scabrous, snaggy, tuberous). (various references) tuberculoso (consumptive, tuberculous). (various references) tuberkulös (tuberculous). (various references) tüberkülozlu (tuberculous), yumrulu (knobbly, knobby, lumpy, nodular, tuberculous, tuberose, tuberous), verem (consumption, phthisic, phthisical, phthisis, tuberculosis, tuberculous), boğumlu (articulated, gnarled, knotty, nodose, nodular, sesamoid, tuberculous). (various references) туберкульозний (consumptive, hectic, phthisic, tuberculous), бульбочковий (nodulating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tubercular": tuberculars. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tubercular": antitubercular. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tubercular" (pronounced 'Tu*ber"cu*lar'): Acapsular, Acetabular, Acicular, Acutangular, Adminicular, Alar, Alular, Anangular, Annular, Antisolar, Apicular, Apolar, Appendicular, Arbuscular, Areolar, Astragalar, Astylar, Auricular, Avicular, Avuncular, Axillar, Biangular, Bicapsular, Bicycular, Bifilar, Biglandular, Bilocular, bimolecular, Bimuscular, bipolar, Birectangular, Bivalvular, Bolar, Branular, Burglar, Calycular, Canicular, Cannular, Carbuncular, Cellar, Cellular, Circumpolar, Clancular, Clausular, Clavicular, Condylar, Consular, Cornicular, Corpuscular, Coticular. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-l-r-r-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: carburet, cubature. | |
-3 letters: blurter, culture, curable, tubular. | |
-4 letters: acuter, arbute, auteur, barrel, barret, barter, bracer, brutal, bureau, burler, butler, cablet, carrel, cartel, carter, claret, crater, crural, curare, curate, curber, curler, curtal, curter, curule, cutler, labret, rectal, reluct, retral, rubace, tracer, tubule. | |
-5 letters: abler, acerb, acute, alert, alter, artel, baler, barer, barre, beaut, blare, blate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-l-r-r-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: tuberculars. | |
+3 letters: arboriculture. | |
+4 letters: antitubercular, arboricultures. | |
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