tubercle – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
tubercle
n.
nodule; small rounded protrusion; small rounded swelling (Pathology); small swelling associated with the disease of tuberculosis (Pathology)
Tubercle
A tubercle is generally a wart-like projection, but it has slightly different meaning depending on which family of plants or animals it is used to refer to.
tubercle
Noun
1. a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
(hypernym) lesion
2. small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant
(synonym) nodule
(hypernym) plant process, enation
3. a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament
(synonym) tuberosity, eminence
(hypernym) process, outgrowth, appendage
(hyponym) deltoid tuberosity, deltoid eminence
Tubercle
(n.)
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.
(n.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
tubercle
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
