nodular
IPA: nˈɑdʒʌɫɝ
adjective
- Of or relating to a nodule or nodules.
- Possessing, composed of, or similar in form to nodules.
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Examples of "nodular" in Sentences
- Fewer than one in 20 nodular goitres are cancerous but an ultrasound scan and/or biopsy may be performed.
- He happened to notice inflammation or lymphoid nodular hyperplasia in the bowels of some children with autism.
- The premolars and molars are squarish, flattened and nodular, and used for crushing, grinding and pulping noncoarse foods.
- Usually metastasis on the skin is nodular—something you can feel as well as see, like a little line of marbles under the surface.
- Accutane is prescribed to treat a type of severe acne called nodular acne which causes red, swollen, tender lumps to form under the skin.
- This presentation examines the claim that equilibrium is a mental module in light of comparative ethnographic and psychological data, and proposes a more complex "nodular" neural system of equilibrium that is subject to enculturation.
- While his detractors were explaining that “the most striking and consistent endoscopic feature, lymphoid nodular hyperplasia in the terminal ileum, is not unusual in children,” Wakefield was trotting out what had become a standard response of vaccine denialists to accusations of unreliable or inaccurate data: He condemned his critics for caring more about their standing in the scientific community than about sick children.
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