tu|ber|cle

tu|ber|cle
tu|ber|cle «TOO buhr kuhl, TYOO-», noun.
1. a small, rounded swelling or knob on an animal or plant, such as a nodule on the root of a legume.
2. a small, hard, rounded swelling in or on the body; nodule.
3. one of the small, soft swellings caused by tuberculosis.
4. a knob (tuberculum costae) near the head of a rib at the point of articulation with the transverse process of a vertebra.
╂[< Latin tūberculum small swelling < tūber lump]

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