Usually means: Afflicted with lymph node tuberculosis.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrofulous: Merriam-Webster
  2. scrofulous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scrofulous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scrofulous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scrofulous: Vocabulary.com
  6. scrofulous: Wordnik
  7. scrofulous: Wiktionary
  8. scrofulous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. scrofulous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. scrofulous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. scrofulous: Dictionary.com
  12. Scrofulous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Scrofulous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. scrofulous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. scrofulous: Rhymezone
  16. Scrofulous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. scrofulous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. scrofulous: FreeDictionary.org
  19. scrofulous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. scrofulous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrofulous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrofulous: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Scrofulous: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. scrofulous: Medical dictionary
  5. Scrofulous: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrofulous: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scrofulous: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (scrofulous)

adjective:  (pathology, dated) Of, related to, or suffering from scrofula (form of tuberculosis tending to cause enlarged lymph nodes and skin inflammation).
adjective:  (figuratively) Having an unkempt, unhealthy appearance.
adjective:  (figuratively) Morally degenerate; corrupt.

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