tuberculize, v.
(tjuːˈbɜːkjʊlaɪz)
[f. L. tūbercul-um tubercle + -ize; cf. F. tuberculiser (Littré).]
a. trans. To affect or infect with tubercle or tuberculosis; to make tuberculous; also, ‘to treat with tuberculin’ (Dorland Med. Dict. 1913). b. intr. To become tuberculous. Hence tuˈberculized ppl. a.
| 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 106/2 Tuberculized pulmonary substance. 1863 Aitken Sc. & Pract. Med. (1866) II. 191 These cells tuberculize, or undergo the tuberculous metamorphosis. 1897 D. N. Kinsman in Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 20 Feb., As soon as a person is known to be tuberculized. 1901 Lancet 9 Nov. 1252/1, I hold..that a scrofulous person is not, and need not be, a tuberculised person. |