noun. 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.

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

noun. 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.

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

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

noun. 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.

noun. a minute vegetable organism (Mycobacterium tuberculosis, formerly Bacillus tuberculosis, and also called Koch's bacillus) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue. It is the causative agent of tuberculosis.

noun. 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.

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

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

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

noun. a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis

noun. 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."

acoustic  anatomical tubercle  chassaignac's tubercle  conoid tubercle  cuneate tubercle  

enation  lesion  plant process  

Gram-negative  acid-fast  anaerobic  anthrax  brucellosis  

abscess  aposteme  bed sore  bilge  blain