Path. Also -id. [ad. mod.L. tūberculīdēs, f. L. tūbercul-um TUBERCLE.] A general term for any skin lesion of a tuberculous nature.
1900. Lancet, 18 Aug., 534/1. True tuberculosis of the skin was asymmetrical, but the tuberculides were strikingly symmetrical.
1900–13. Dorland, Med. Dict., Tuberculid, tuberculide.
