tubercle

Definitions of tubercle in various dictionaries:

noun - a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis

noun - small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant

noun - a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

A nodule or swelling, especially a mass of lymphocytes and epithelioid cells forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.

A small, rounded prominence or process, such as a wartlike excrescence on the roots of some leguminous plants or a knoblike process in the skin or on a bone.

noun - a small, rounded swelling

TUBERCLE - In anatomy, a tubercle is any round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on external or internal organs of a plant or an animal....