Tubercle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TUBERCLE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a small tuber, protuberance or swelling, also TUBERCULE
• a small rounded projection or protuberance, especially on a bone or on the surface of an animal or plant.
• a small nodular lesion in the lungs or other tissues, characteristic of tuberculosis.
• small rounded swelling
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a small, rounded swelling

Words related to TUBERCLE

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Words that contain TUBERCLE

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How to use TUBERCLE in a sentence

• The body above is furnished with sparse, stiff hairs, each arising from a tubercle.
• It is smaller than the tubercle bacillus, being only about half or at most two-thirds the size of the latter, but much more plump, thicker, and slightly curved.
• They belonged to the tubercle kind which are peculiar to the Indian seas.
• Many voluntarily abstain from marriage, because of a strong hereditary tendency to certain diseases such as cancer and tubercle.
• Nitragin is the name given by certain German investigators to a commercial product put upon the market, which claims to be a pure culture of the root tubercle organism.
• According to Cuvier they possess, like the last family, a fifth tubercle on their last molars.
• Hence there is scarcely a considerable tubercle, with which this country also abounds, that may not be found containing a mass of whin-stone as a nucleus.
• The reason is now clear, because it is known that the brunette or the blond, the old or the young, may become infected with the tubercle bacillus.
• The detection of slight degrees of tuberculous infection is now made easy by certain skin reactions on inoculation of the skin with a substance derived from the tubercle bacilli.
• Occasionally milk contains tubercle bacilli from the cows themselves.
• After the discovery of the tubercle bacillus, the fame of Robert Koch became world-wide.
• It consists of a glycerine extract prepared by the cultivation of tubercle bacilli.
• It is now known that the action of the remedy is not directly against the tubercle bacilli, but rather against the affected tissue in which they exist.

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