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nouna protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament
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nounsmall rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant
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nouna swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosistype of:
Definition that contains tubercle
- tuberculosis infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
- tb infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages)
- koch German bacteriologist who isolated the anthrax bacillus and the tubercle bacillus and the cholera bacillus (1843-1910)
- tubercular constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus
- tubercular characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles
- tubercular pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle
- miliary tuberculosis acute tuberculosis characterized by the appearance of tiny tubercles on one or more organs of the body (presumably resulting from tubercle bacilli being spread in the bloodstream)
- ariocarpus fissuratus usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
- xenosaurus type and sole genus of Xenosauridae: slender-bodied Mexican lizards having the upper surface covered with tiny granules and tubercles
- living rock usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States