Definitions for tubercle

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tubercle tu·ber·cle

Spelling: [too-ber-kuh l, tyoo-]

IPA: /ˈtu bər kəl, ˈtyu-/

Tubercle is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in tubercle (bceelrtu).

Definitions for tubercle

noun

1. a small rounded projection or excrescence, as on a bone or on the surface of the body.
2. Pathology. a small, firm, rounded nodule or swelling. such a swelling as the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
3. Botany. a tuberlike swelling or nodule.

Origin of tubercle

From the Latin word tūberculum, dating back to 1570-80. See tuber¹, -cle¹

Examples for tubercle

Morton taught that the tubercle was the pathological evidence of the disease.

When a spot, tubercle, punctum, &c. is scarcely discoverable.

Then, in 1881, came the welcome news that Koch had discovered the bacillus of tubercle.

tubercle: a small, wart-like growth on the roots of legumes.

Amputation was performed, and the tibia sawn off close to the tubercle.

When a variole, tubercle, granule, &c. has a depression in its centre.

Where the disease appears in the udder the milk almost invariably contains the tubercle organism.

The portion of the rib between the head and the tubercle is known as the neck.

He founded the facts of tubercle, and on that foundation Villemin built.

If milk is momentarily heated to 176° F., it is certainly sufficient to destroy the tubercle bacillus.