tubercle
n . 小块茎,小瘤,结节
小块茎,小瘤,结节
tubercle n 1 :
a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis 2 :
small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant [
synonym :
{
nodule }, {
tubercle }]
3 :
a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament [
synonym : {
tuberosity }, {
tubercle },
{
eminence }]
Tubercle \
Tu "
ber *
cle \,
n . [
L .
tuberculum ,
dim .
of tuber :
cf .
F .
tubercule ,
OF .
also tubercle .
See {
Tuber }.]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
A small knoblike prominence or excrescence ,
whether natural or morbid ;
as ,
a tubercle on a plant ;
a tubercle on a bone ;
the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 . (
Med .)
A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter ;
especially ,
the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis .
This is composed of a hard ,
grayish ,
or yellowish ,
translucent or opaque matter ,
which gradually softens ,
and excites suppuration in its vicinity .
It is most frequently found in the lungs ,
causing consumption .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
Tubercle bacillus } (
Med .),
a minute vegetable organism ({
Mycobacterium tuberculosis },
formerly {
Bacillus tuberculosis },
and also called {
Koch '
s bacillus })
discovered by Koch ,
a German physician ,
in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue .
It is the causative agent of tuberculosis .
[
1913 Webster PJC ]
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "
tubercle ":
abscess ,
aposteme ,
bed sore ,
bilge ,
blain ,
bleb ,
blister ,
blob ,
boil ,
boss ,
bow ,
bubble ,
bubo ,
bulb ,
bulbil ,
bulge ,
bulla ,
bump ,
bunch ,
bunion ,
burl ,
button ,
cahot ,
canker ,
canker sore ,
carbuncle ,
chancre ,
chancroid ,
chilblain ,
chine ,
clump ,
cold sore ,
condyle ,
convex ,
corm ,
dowel ,
ear ,
eschar ,
felon ,
fester ,
festering ,
fever blister ,
fistula ,
flange ,
flap ,
furuncle ,
furunculus ,
gall ,
gathering ,
gnarl ,
gumboil ,
handle ,
hemorrhoids ,
hill ,
hump ,
hunch ,
jog ,
joggle ,
kibe ,
knob ,
knot ,
knur ,
knurl ,
lesion ,
lip ,
loop ,
lump ,
mole ,
mountain ,
nevus ,
nub ,
nubbin ,
nubble ,
papilloma ,
papula ,
papule ,
paronychia ,
parulis ,
peg ,
petechia ,
piles ,
pimple ,
pock ,
polyp ,
pustule ,
radicle ,
radix ,
rhizome ,
rib ,
ridge ,
ring ,
rising ,
root ,
rootstock ,
scab ,
shoulder ,
soft chancre ,
sore ,
spine ,
stigma ,
stud ,
sty ,
style ,
suppuration ,
swelling ,
tab ,
tap ,
taproot ,
tuber ,
tubercule ,
ulcer ,
ulceration ,
verruca ,
vesicle ,
wale ,
wart ,
welt ,
wheal ,
whelk ,
whitlow ,
wound
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