Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - tubercle
Tubercle
tubercle
n. 1 a small rounded protuberance esp. on a bone. 2 a small rounded swelling on the body or in an organ, esp. a nodular lesion characteristic of tuberculosis in the lungs etc. 3 a small tuber; a wartlike growth. Phrases and idioms tubercle bacillus a bacterium causing tuberculosis. Derivatives tuberculate adj. tuberculous adj. Etymology: L tuberculum, dimin. of tuber: see TUBER
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noun Etymology: Latin tuberculum, diminutive of tuber Date: 1578 a small knobby prominence or excrescence especially on a plant or animal ; nodule: as, a protuberance near the head of a rib that articulates with the transverse process of a vertebra, any of several prominences in the central nervous system, nodule b, a small abnormal discrete lump in the substance of an organ or in the skin ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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