Tuberculum

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  • n. tubercle
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A tubercle.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A little tuber; a small tuberosity.
  • n. In pathology:
  • n. A hard, circumscribed, rounded elevation of small size on the surface of the body or an organ.
  • n. A nodule, of varying size, composed chiefly of granulation-cells: the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
    • Word Usage
    "—The thyroid gland is developed from a median diverticulum (Fig. 1175), which appears about the fourth week on the summit of the tuberculum impar, but later is found in the furrow immediately behind the tuberculum (Fig. 979)."
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