Tubercle

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tubercle \Tu"ber*cle\, n. [L. tuberculum, dim. of tuber: cf. F.
     tubercule, OF. also tubercle. See {Tuber}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. 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.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Med.) 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Tubercle bacillus} (Med.), a minute vegetable organism
        ({Mycobacterium tuberculosis}, formerly {Bacillus
        tuberculosis}, and also called {Koch's bacillus})
        discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of
        consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue. It is the
        causative agent of tuberculosis.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tubercle
       n 1: a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
       2: small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant [syn: {nodule}]
       3: a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a
          muscle or ligament [syn: {tuberosity}, {eminence}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  121 Moby Thesaurus words for "tubercle":
     abscess, aposteme, bed sore, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob,
     boil, boss, bow, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulbil, bulge, bulla, bump,
     bunch, bunion, burl, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle,
     chancre, chancroid, chilblain, chine, clump, cold sore, condyle,
     convex, corm, dowel, ear, eschar, felon, fester, festering,
     fever blister, fistula, flange, flap, furuncle, furunculus, gall,
     gathering, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hemorrhoids, hill, hump, hunch,
     jog, joggle, kibe, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lesion, lip, loop,
     lump, mole, mountain, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma,
     papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple,
     pock, polyp, pustule, radicle, radix, rhizome, rib, ridge, ring,
     rising, root, rootstock, scab, shoulder, soft chancre, sore, spine,
     stigma, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, tab, tap, taproot,
     tuber, tubercule, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart,
     welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wound