'Tubercle' definitions:
Definition of 'tubercle'
From: WordNet
noun
A swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
noun
Small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant [syn: nodule, tubercle]
noun
A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament [syn: tuberosity, tubercle, eminence]
Definition of 'Tubercle'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'tubercle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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