Words Like TUBERCLE
    
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            5 Alternative Words Similar to tubercle
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        1 examples of tubercle
           
        
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        a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of tubercle
           
        
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        A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid
    
    
    
 
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        A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption.
    
    
    
 
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        a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament
    
    
    
 
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        a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
    
    
    
 
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        small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant
    
    
    
 
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        A small rounded projecting part or outgrowth, such as a wartlike excrescence on the roots of some leguminous plants or a knoblike process in the skin or on a bone.
    
    
    
 
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        Pathology   A nodule or swelling, especially a mass of lymphocytes and epithelioid cells forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
    
    
    
 
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        A little tuber, or tubercule; a small tuberosity; especially, a small projection of a bone, for the attachment of a ligament or tendon, as of the femur, hyoid, scaphoid, ulna, tibia, zygoma, etc. See tuberculum and tuberosity.
    
    
    
 
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        A roughness on the humerus for the insertion of the deltoid muscle: usually called deltoid ridge.
    
    
    
 
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        A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.