Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tubercle or tuberculum.
- noun In botany, any root of a class embracing both tuberous roots and tubercles: used specifically by Lindley.
- noun The tuberculum cinereum of Rolando.
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- noun
tubercle
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Examples
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_Diagnosis_, to be certain, requires the demonstration of the tubercule bacilli and the characteristic cell accumulation of the tubercle in a specimen of tissue removed from the lesion.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Claus, that the "green gland" really opens at the end of the process described by Milne-Edwards as a "tubercule auditif" and by Spence Bate as an "olfactory denticle."
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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“Tobias Smollet thus became Europe’s tubercule; the infectious agent coursing the continental arteries.”
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“Tobias Smollet thus became Europe’s tubercule; the infectious agent coursing the continental arteries.”
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Koch (1897) had already called attention to the danger of grinding tubercule bacilli in open mortars. "
Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2008
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