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tubercle n. 小塊莖,小瘤,結節 小塊莖,小瘤,結節 tubercle n 1: a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis 2: small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant [ synonym: { nodule}, { tubercle}] 3: a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament [ synonym: { tuberosity}, { tubercle}, { eminence}] Tubercle \ Tu" ber* cle\, n. [ L. tuberculum, dim. of tuber: cf. F. tubercule, OF. also tubercle. See { Tuber}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Med.) 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. [ 1913 Webster] { Tubercle bacillus} ( Med.), a minute vegetable organism ({ Mycobacterium tuberculosis}, formerly { Bacillus tuberculosis}, and also called { Koch' s bacillus}) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue. It is the causative agent of tuberculosis. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 121 Moby Thesaurus words for " tubercle": 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
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