Definition of "tubercular" [tu•ber•cu•lar]

• Of, relating to, or covered with tubercles; tuberculate. (adjective)
• Of, relating to, or affected with tuberculosis. (adjective)
• A person having tuberculosis. (noun)

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• "The sound of all those women with that special tubercular cough, wet lungs ripping, and the spit of blood after, echoed through the hall."
• "Her mother had died in childbirth and she had a tubercular father."
• "Unpretentious and easy to miss, it is dedicated, not to the badge-wearing Earps or their tubercular friend, John Henry "Doc" Holliday, but to the memory of brothers Frank and Tom McLaury — two of the three men who died that day."