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
- 1920 - A practical medical 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
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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.
By Oddity Software
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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
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1. A circumscribed, rounded, solid elevation on the skin, mucous membrane, or surface of an organ. 2. The lesion of tuberculosis, consisting of a small isolated nodule or aggregation of nodules, formed of epithelioid and giant cells, which are prone to undergo caseation. 3. Same as tuberculosis. 4. A slight elevation from the surface of a bone giving attachment to a muscle or ligament; tuberosity. 5. In dentistry, a cusp.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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
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A small swelling or tumour; a little knob, like a pimple on plants; a morbid development, chiefly in the lungs, of an opaque pale yellow matter of the consistency at first of concrete albumen.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A little knob; in med., a small, hard, local tumour-when deposited in numbers on the lungs, and suppurating, producing the disease known as consumption; a pimple or tumour appearing on the skin; in bot., a swollen simple root, as of some orchids; a little tuber.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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