tubercular

adj

1. Of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis.

   “As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation.”

   “He set up business in Sydney, the little capital city of one of the middle Southern states, lived soberly and industriously under the attentive eye of a folk still raw with defeat and hostility, and finally, his good name founded and admission won, he married a gaunt tubercular spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony.”

   “There had been, too, all the long weeks of Rosie’s tubercular dying to go through.”

   “2012, Will Self, “Kafka’s Wound, A digital essay” London Review of Books website, The adult Kafka – the Kafka vermiculated by tubercular bacilli after having been played on for decades, as a demonic organist might press fleshy keys and pull bony stops, by his own relentless neurasthenia – reached a mystical appreciation of his youthful velleity, characterising it as a desire both to expertly hammer together a table and at the same time ‘do nothing’.”

2. Relating to or reminiscent of the wheezing sounds associated with the breathing of tuberculosis patients.

   “The engine heaved. […] The thing sounded like a tubercular tugboat engine without a muffler.”

   “Crows on the roof beat their wings and made their low tubercular moan.”

   “His voice? A raspy, nasal and welcoming instrument, with a tubercular kind of charisma.”

3. Having, being, or relating to tubercles.

   ““ORANGE ORCHID” “SPOTTED ORCHID” […] Dorsal appendage of the hood of column smooth, tubercular and notched at the end.”

noun

1. (dated)A person who has tuberculosis.

   “They are the tuberculars, the psychiatrics, and the older men suffering from chronic conditions. All of those men are totally disabled.”