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Tuberculous   Listen
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Tuberculous  adj.  (Med.) Pertaining to, or affected with, a tuberculosis.






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"Tuberculous" Quotes from Famous Books



... inspectors, not more than one in a hundred would pass muster; and when one also reflects upon the wide prevalence of tuberculosis in animals,—at least ten per cent of all the cows in the country are known to be tuberculous,—and the growing prevalence of tapeworm and trichinae, diseases which are exclusively derived from the eating of flesh, and then contemplates the purity and perfection of the choice little food packets which we call nuts, it is easy to ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting • Various

... from this cause the pericardium becomes much distended with fluid, the pressure of this upon the flaccid auricles and large venous trunks may give rise to general anasarca, to hydrothorax or ascites, either separate or co-existing. Tuberculous deposits in the lungs and scrofulous bronchial glands may cause obstructive pressure on the pulmonary veins, followed by effusion of either pus or serum into the pleural sac. [Footnote 2] An abscess or other tumour of the liver may, by pressing on the vena portae, cause serous effusion into the ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise



Words linked to "Tuberculous" :   ill, tubercular, sick



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