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Of or pertaining to trichinæ or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinæ; as, trichinous meat.

Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; -- said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.

Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.

Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.

Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.

Affected with tuberculosis.

One who is affected with tulipomania.

Affected pomp; bombast; swelling words or expressions; false magnificence or sublimity. [R.] Better, however, to be a flippant, than, by a revolting form of tumor and perplexity, to lead men into habits of intellect such as result from the modern vice of English style. De Quincey. Encysted tumor, a tumor which is inclo…

A disease with which sheep are sometimes affected; gid; sturdy. See Gid.

An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound. He has such a twang in his discourse. Arbuthnot.

Of, pertaining to, or affected with, tympanites.

Affected with, or as with, an ulcer or ulcers; as, an ulcerated sore throat.

Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak. -- Ul"cer*ous*ly, adv. -- Ul"cer*ous*ness, n.

Uninterested; unaffected. [Obs.] Glanvill.

Specifically, ill from menstruation; affected with, or having, catamenial; menstruant.

Affected with the vapors. See Vapor, n., 5.

Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome. Pallas grew vap'rish once and odd. Pope.

Irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.

Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven. Jer. Taylor. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ness, n.