tubercle

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
• A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.

Related

Similar words

• tubercule
• tuberculum
• tuberosity
• eminence
• nodule

Origin

• From Latin tuberculum.