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tubelike |
tuber |
tuber root |
tuberaceae |
tuberales |
tubercle
| tubercle bacillus
| tubercled
| tubercular
| tubercularia
| tuberculariaceae
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tubercle has 3 senses
- tubercle(n = noun.state) Array - a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis; Array is a kind of lesion
- tubercle(n = noun.plant) nodule - small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant; Array 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; Array has particulars: deltoid eminence, deltoid tuberosity
Derived forms adjective tubercular4, adjective tubercular1, adjective tuberculous1
is a kind of appendage, outgrowth, process
Derived form adjective tubercular2
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]
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.
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
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, woundROGET THESAURUS
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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).
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