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Examples
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"Tubercle," said he (this was their name for the agent, who had told all of us about his lungs), "it ain't your fault we saw their fine letter.
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
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He is drawing the fine isthmus of candle-white flesh above the Tubercle of Pubis.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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The research has been accepted for publication in the European magazine "Tubercle and lung disease".
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= Tubercle =, a small nodular growth on the roots of plants.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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The Ligament of the Tubercle of the Rib (ligamentum tuberculi costæ posterior costotransverse ligament).
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The Greater Tubercle (tuberculum majus; greater tuberosity).
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Tubercle bacilli have never been found, in the cases at the
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Tubercle bacillus: in milk, 88; in separator slime, 93; thermal death limits, 117.
Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying 1910
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= Tubercle =: a small, wart-like growth on the roots of legumes.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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He met their few remarks so smoothly that they got no joy from him; and being asked had he seen the new agent, he answered yes, that Tubercle had gone Wednesday, and his successor did not seem to be much of a man.
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
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