Look up: tubercle

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   Tubercle
   a small, usually hard excrescence or lump
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   tubercle
   Any small rounded protrusion. In pycnogonids and some cheliceramorph arthropods, the central eyes are carried on a tubercle.
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   Tubercle
   A projection. Rounded protuberance.
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   tubercle
   [n] - a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
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   Tubercle
   a small, rounded projection.
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   Tubercle
   Tubercle: A small tuber, a small lump or bump.
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   tubercle
   a nodule of chronic inflammation that is a characteristic lesion of tuberculosis Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • a rounded elevation on a bone or other structure Category: Medicine
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   tubercle
   Chronic inflammatory focus, a granuloma, caused by Mycobacterium > Mycobacterium tuberculosis .
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   tubercle
   <microbiology> Chronic inflammatory focus, a granuloma, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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    tubercle
    noun a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
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    Tubercle
    A `tubercle` is generally a wart-like projection, but it has slightly different meaning depending on which family of plants it is used to refer to. With certain orchids and cacti, it denotes a round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on the lip. They are also known as podaria, which is `podaria` in its plural form. When referring to some members of the pea family, it is used to refer to the wart-like excrescences that are found o...
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    tubercle
    (too´bәr-kәl) a nodule or small eminence, especially one on a bone, for attachment of a tendon; see also tuber and tuberosity. Called also tuberculum. the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis, a small round gray translucent granulomatous lesion, usually with central caseation. It is made up of modif...
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    Tubercle
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) A smal...
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    tubercle
    (from the article `Caryophyllales`) ...to absorb light. The stems of the epiphytes and many of the climbing cacti usually remain thin, however, as much of their water must be absorbed ...
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    tubercle
    (from the article `tuberculosis`) ...of tubercle bacilli that may be inhaled by a healthy person. There the bacilli become trapped in the tissues of the body, are surrounded by immune ...
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    tubercle
    a small, wart-like process.
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    tubercle
    tubercle (tOO'burkyOOl") [Lat.,=little swelling], small, usually solid, nodule or prominence. In anatomy the term is applied to natural prominences in certain muscles, to nerve nuclei of the central nervous system, and to eminences on bones, especially in regions where muscles (through tendo...
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