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What is a tubercle?

What is a tubercle? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (anatomy) A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.
  2. (botany) A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
  3. (pathology) A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
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Ordinarily, no attempt is made to identify any but the tubercle bacillus and the gonococcus.
The giant-cells, the epithelioid cells, and the well-characterized reticulum appear as the tubercle increases in age.
The seedling lost its hyaline appearance and the parasite died before a tubercle had formed.
At about midlength of the dorsal ridge of the pubis, a small pubic tubercle is directed dorsolaterally.
Its fibers pass dorsally from an extensive anterior attachment to insert on the pharyngeal raphe, the pharyngeal tubercle of the occipital bone.
The blood supply of the scaphoid comes from the radial artery, feeding the bone on the dorsal surface near the tubercle and scaphoid waist.

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