tubercles

The disease is characterized by the formation of patches, called tubercles, that appear in the lungs and, in later stages, the bones, joints, and other parts of the body.

tuberculosis 2002

If allowed to proceed the spawn would form threads and small tubercles, which is a stage too far advanced for the retention of its vegetative powers.

Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer

The new knowledge, derived from the stethoscope, by detecting those abnormal deposits of abortive nutrition, called tubercles, has been received for more than its worth, and has greatly served to keep up the delusion of treating effects instead of causes.

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

As oedema marks the first tardiness of fluids we have the beginning step which will lead from miliary tuberculosis to the largest known forms of tubercles, which is the effect of the active principles of stale life or the life of dead matter.

Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

Sexing is easiest during the breeding season in spring and early summer when females become fat with eggs and males develop tiny raised white spots called tubercles on their heads, gill covers and pectoral fins.

Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS) 2009

Sexing is easiest during the breeding season in spring and early summer when females become fat with eggs and males develop tiny raised white spots called tubercles on their heads, gill covers and pectoral fins.

Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS) 2009

In both the exterior surface of the buckler and of the operculum the tubercles are a good deal enveloped in the stone, which is of a consistency too hard to be removed without injuring what it overlies; but you will find them in the smaller cast which accompanies the others, and which, as shown by the thickness of the plate in the original, indicates their size and form in a large individual, very characteristically shown.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

In both the exterior surface of the buckler and of the operculum the tubercles are a good deal enveloped in the stone, which is of a consistency too hard to be removed without injuring what it overlies; but you will find them in the smaller cast which accompanies the others, and which, as shown by the thickness of the plate in the original, indicates their size and form in a large individual, very characteristically shown.

Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840

called tubercles running up the edge of a humpback whale's fin make the creatures perform better in low-flow water.

The Seattle Times 2010

These ulcers, which are, I think, called "tubercles" by your physicians, had been the immediate cause of many deaths.

Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah Benjamin Lumley 1843