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Tubercle

noun
1.
A swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
2.
Small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant.  Synonym: nodule.
3.
A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament.  Synonyms: eminence, tuberosity.



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... who is a doctor and a man of science, writes: "There is a strong history of gout on the paternal side. No history of alcohol, tubercle, brain trouble, or of the arthropathies. There is some reason to believe that two of my maternal aunts were sexually frigid, and perhaps this was true to a less extent of my mother, who had a contracted pelvis, necessitating the ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


Words linked to "Tubercle" :   deltoid eminence, deltoid tuberosity, appendage, enation, process, lesion, tubercular, outgrowth, tuberculous, plant process


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