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n. 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.

n. Pathology A nodule or swelling, especially a mass of lymphocytes and epithelioid cells forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.

n. 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.

n. A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.

n. A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.

n. A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid

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 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.

n. A roughness on the humerus for the insertion of the deltoid muscle: usually called deltoid ridge.

n. a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

n. a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis

n. small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant

"Running obliquely downward and medialward from the tubercle is the intertrochanteric line (spiral line of the femur); it winds around the medial side of the body of the bone, below the lesser trochanter, and ends about 5 cm. below this eminence in the linea aspera."

lesion    plant process    enation   

genial tubercles    acoustic    mucous tubercle    ocular tubercle    conoid tubercle   

tuberculum    tuberosity    nodule    eminence   

acid-fast    tetanus    diphtheria    Gram-negative    peduncle