👉 'Tuberculinic' is a term that refers to the phenomenon of a person contracting a bacterial infection after ingesting tubercular (or tuberculosis) spores from contaminated food or water sources. It's a euphemism for the terrifying, contagious disease known as TB.
An example sentence using 'tuberculinic' could be: "I just found out my mom had contracted TB after eating dinner with her old boyfriend. She's going to have to take antibiotics forever!"