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tubercle

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Noun

HYPHEN

tu=ber=cle

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tubercle has 3 senses

tubercle(n = noun.state) - a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis;

is a kind of

lesion

Derived forms adjective tubercular₄, adjective tubercular₁, adjective tuberculous₁

tubercle(n = noun.plant) nodule - small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant;

is a kind of enation, plant process

tubercle(n = noun.body) eminence, tuberosity - a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament;

has particulars: deltoid eminence, deltoid tuberosity

is a kind of appendage, outgrowth, process

Derived form adjective tubercular₂

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CIDE DICTIONARY

tubercle, n. [L. tuberculum, dim. of tuber: cf. F. tubercule, OF. also tubercle. See Tuber.].

A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]

Tubercle bacillus (Med.), 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.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

tubercle, n.
1 a small rounded protuberance esp. on a bone.
2 a small rounded swelling on the body or in an organ, esp. a nodular lesion characteristic of tuberculosis in the lungs etc.
3 a small tuber; a wartlike growth.

Idiom

tubercle bacillus a bacterium causing tuberculosis.

Derivative

tuberculate adj. tuberculous adj.

Etymology

L tuberculum, dimin. of tuber: see TUBER

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THESAURUS

tubercle

abscess, aposteme, bed sore, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boil, boss, bow, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulbil, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, chine, clump, cold sore, condyle, convex, corm, dowel, ear, eschar, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flange, flap, furuncle, furunculus, gall, gathering, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hemorrhoids, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, kibe, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lesion, lip, loop, lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple, pock, polyp, pustule, radicle, radix, rhizome, rib, ridge, ring, rising, root, rootstock, scab, shoulder, soft chancre, sore, spine, stigma, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, tab, tap, taproot, tuber, tubercule, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound

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Convexity

N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).