tubercle
IPA: tubɝkʌɫ
noun
- (anatomy) A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.
- (botany) A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
- (pathology) A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
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Examples of "tubercle" in Sentences
- The fruit a follicle with tubercles.
- No horny tubercles are present on the neck.
- It uses the dorsal tubercle on the radius as fulcrum.
- The interstice has similar tubercle on posterior declivity.
- The olfactory tubercle is a structure involved in Olfaction.
- It consists of the nucleus accumbens and the olfactory tubercle.
- The males develop nuptial tubercles on the head and paired fins.
- In the males, the sinus tubercle gives rise to the seminal colliculus.
- Is the tubercle of the femur the same as the quadrate tubercle of the femur
- Agglomerations of glandular tissue can be found on the apex of the tubercles.
- TB is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is also called a tubercle bacillus.
- This containing structure, called a tubercle, physically protects the bacteria from being destroyed by the immune system.
- In the female a deep groove forms around the phallus and separates it from the rest of the cloacal tubercle, which is now termed the genital tubercle.
- The adductor tubercle, which is situated on the upper and back part of the medial epicondyle, gives attachment to the round tendon of the adductor magnus, and marks the level of the epiphysial line and of the upper limit of the trochlear surface of the femur.
- Running obliquely downward and medialward from the tubercle is the intertrochanteric line (spiral line of the femur); it winds around the medial side of the body of the bone, below the lesser trochanter, and ends about 5 cm. below this eminence in the linea aspera.
- The volar surface is concave above, and elevated at its lower and lateral part into a rounded projection, the tubercle, which is directed forward and gives attachment to the transverse carpal ligament and sometimes origin to a few fibers of the Abductor pollicis brevis.
- A prominence, of variable size, occurs at the junction of the upper part of the neck with the greater trochanter, and is called the tubercle of the femur; it is the point of meeting of five muscles: the Glutæus minimus laterally, the Vastus lateralis below, and the tendon of the Obturator internus and two Gemelli above.