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tu·ber·cle  (tbr-kl, ty-)

n.

1. 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.

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

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[Latin tberculum, diminutive of tber, lump; see tuber.]

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tubercle [ˈtjuːbək^əl]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) any small rounded nodule or elevation, esp on the skin, on a bone, or on a plant

2. (Medicine / Pathology) any small rounded pathological lesion of the tissues, esp one characteristic of tuberculosis

[from Latin tūberculum a little swelling, diminutive of tuber]

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tubercle  (tbr-kl)

A small rounded projection, swelling, or lump, as on the roots of legumes or on bodily tissue, especially the cluster of inflammatory cells that form in the lungs in tuberculosis.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tubercle - a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis lesion - any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part
	2.	tubercle - small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant nodule plant process, enation - a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ
	3.	tubercle - a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament tuberosity, eminence deltoid eminence, deltoid tuberosity - a bump on the outside of the humerus where the deltoid muscle attaches appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process"

Translations

tubercle [ˈtjuːbəkl] N (all senses) → tubérculo m

tubercle

n (Bot) → Knoten m, → Knötchen nt; (Med also) → Tuberkel m