a. [f. as prec. + -ED.] = prec. a. Nat. Hist.
1771. Pennant, in Phil. Trans., LXI. 272. The whole circumference of the back bounded by a tuberculated rib.
1784. André, ibid., LXXIV. 274. Let us … recollect the tuberculated teeth in the thorn-back.
1845. Lindley, Sch. Bot., vi. (1858), 83. Receptacle conical, toothed, tuberculated.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., 129. When some of the divisions of a root become enlarged so as to form more or less rounded or egg-shaped expansions…, the root is said to be tuberculated, and each enlargement is called a tubercle.
b. Path. (also transf. characterized by tubercles).
1797. M. Baillie, Morb. Anat. (1807), 22. The formation of the common tuberculated liver.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs. Tumours (1816), 51. Tuberculated Sarcoma … consists of an aggregation of small, firm, roundish tumours,… connected together by a kind of cellular substance.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), II. 489. A tuberculated state of the lungs. Ibid. (1829), III. 428. The palms of the hands [in leprosy] were seldom tuberculated.
1854. F. H. Ramadge, Curability of Consumption (1861), Pref. 11. All … might be tuberculated, and yet not one of them die of consumption.
Hence Tuberculatedly adv.
1822. J. Parkinson, Outl. Oryctol., 220. With transverse tuberculatedly scabrous ribs.
