Look up: tubercle

1. Tubercle
   a small, usually hard excrescence or lump
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2. tubercle
   Any small rounded protrusion. In pycnogonids and some cheliceramorph arthropods, the central eyes are carried on a tubercle.
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3. Tubercle
   A projection. Rounded protuberance.
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4. tubercle
   [n] - a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
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5. Tubercle
   a small, rounded projection.
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6. Tubercle
   Tubercle: A small tuber, a small lump or bump.
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7. 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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8. tubercle
   Chronic inflammatory focus, a granuloma, caused by Mycobacterium > Mycobacterium tuberculosis .
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9. tubercle
   <microbiology> Chronic inflammatory focus, a granuloma, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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10. tubercle
    noun a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
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11. 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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12. 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 ...
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13. 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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14. 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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15. tubercle
    Type: Term Pronunciation: tū′bĕr-kĕl Definitions: 1. A nodule, especially in an anatomic, not pathologic, sense. 2. A circumscribed, rounded, solid elevation on the skin, mucous membrane, surface of an organ, or the surface of a bone, the latter giving attachment to a muscle or ...
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16. tubercle
    a small, wart-like process.
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17. 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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18. tubercle
    a small fleshy projection on the neck of some turtles
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19. tubercle
    (L: tuber lump, swelling; tuberculum small lump) a small knoblike process in the skin of an animal.
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20. tubercle
    Latin diminutive of tuber, a small prominence, usually bony.
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21. tubercle
    (too;ber-k'l) A small, elevated process on a bone.
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22. tubercle
    (too;ber-k'l) A small, elevated process on a bone.
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23. Tubercle
    `` shows its pattern of prominent tubercles, with the spines emanating from each tubercle`s tip. A `tubercle` is generally a wart-like projection, but it has slightly different meaning depending on which family of plants or animals it is used to refer to. In the case of certain orchids and cacti, it...
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24. Tubercle
    (anatomy) In anatomy, the term `tubercle` may describe a round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on bones or skin, or, in cases of tuberculosis, in the lungs. In addition to the types that exist in or on humans (as well as certain other animals) as described below, they are als...
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25. Tubercle
    (rib) The `tubercle` of a rib is an eminence on the posterior surface, at the junction of the neck and body of the rib, and nearer the lower than the upper border. It consists of an articular and a non-articular portion. Additional images: <gallery> Image:Gray313.png|Costotransverse articu...
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