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TUBERCLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

Synonyms:

eminence; tubercle; tuberosity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tubercle" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tubercle"):

deltoid eminence; deltoid tuberosity (a bump on the outside of the humerus where the deltoid muscle attaches)

Derivation:

tubercular (pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant

Synonyms:

nodule; tubercle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tubercle" is a kind of...):

enation; plant process (a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("tubercle" is a kind of...):

lesion (any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part)

Derivation:

tubercular (constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus)

tubercular (characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles)

tuberculous (constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus)

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