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Carbuncular   Listen
adjective
Carbuncular  adj.  Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Carbuncular" Quotes from Famous Books



... expectorated, and the breath possessed a pestiferous odor. In the West an ardent fever, accompanied by an evacuation of blood, proved fatal in the first three days. It appears that buboes and inflammatory boils did not at first appear, but the disease in the form of carbuncular affection of the lungs (anthrax artigen) caused the fatal issue before the other symptoms developed. Later on in the history of the plague the inflammatory boils and buboes in the groins and axillae were recognized at once ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould



Words linked to "Carbuncular" :   unhealthy, carbuncled, carbuncle



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