tubercle
pronunciation
How to pronounce tubercle in British English:
UK [ˈtju:bəkl]
How to pronounce tubercle in American English:
US [ˈtubəkl]
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- Noun:
- a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
- small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant
- a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament
Word Origin
- tubercle (n.)
- 1570s, from Latin tuberculum "a small swelling," diminutive of tuber "lump" (see tuber).
Example
- 1. Vaginal orgasm is more prevalent among women with a prominent tubercle of the upper lip .
- 2. Fish 's discovery , now called the " tubercle effect , " not only applies to fins and flippers in the water , but also to wings and fan blades in the air .
- 3. Sometimes may touch the tubercle which the size does not wait and can move slightly .
- 4. Two new york researchers , daniel wesson and donald wilson , were confronted with this fact when they began investigating an " enigmatic " area of the brain known as the olfactory tubercle .
- 5. Pulmonary plague assumes the bronchial tube or big task pneumonia , the bronchial tube and the pulmonary alveolus has the hemorrhagic size to seep out as well as to disperse the necrotic tubercle which causes coldly in the bacterium hitch .