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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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"Tubercle" Quotes from Famous Books



... his mind. "Don't be alarmed," he said gayly. "I'm not a doctor, but I practise a little medicine and surgery on account of the men at the mill, and accidents, you know. You're all right now; you've lost a little blood: but in a couple of weeks in this air we'll have that tubercle healed, and you'll be as right ...
— A Phyllis of the Sierras • Bret Harte
... climates presented by Ceylon enables a patient, by the easy change of residence to a different altitude and temperature, avoiding the heats of one period and the dry winds of another, to check to a great extent the predisposing causes likely to lead to the development of tubercle. This, with attention to clothing and systematic exercise as preventives of active disease, may serve to restrain the further progress though it fail to eradicate the tendency to phthibis. But when already the formation ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent


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