TUBERCLE
\tjˈuːbəkə͡l], \tjˈuːbəkəl], \t_j_ˈuː_b_ə_k_əl]\
Definitions of TUBERCLE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A small knoblike growth, especially on an animal or plant; a tiny unhealthy growth appearing in the tissues of the body; especially that causing tuberculosis.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A small tuber or swelling: a pimple: a small knob on leaves: a small mass of diseased matter frequently found in the lungs, and which is the cause of the well-known fatal disease called pulmonary consumption.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Any mass of small rounded nodules produced by the bacillus of tuberculosis.
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A nodule or small eminence.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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In anatomy, blunt and rounded end of a bone; also a small rounded eminence on a bone or other part. See also tuberosity.
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In dermatology, a little nodule in the skin produced by a morbid deposit or growth in the corium or subcutaneous tissue.
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In pathology, a small granular body, varying in diameter from 1/20 mm. to 3 mm. Its consistence is hard, and when fresh it is transparent, but it later becomes opaque, and yellowish at the center. The t. is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis, and is produced by the bacillus of tuberculosis.
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In dentistry, a small rounded eminence on the occlusal surface of a molar tooth. A cusp.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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