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Scrobicular :: Scrobicular (a.) Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculae; as, scrobicular tubercles..

Oreosoma :: Oreosoma (n. pl.) A genus of small oceanic fishes, remarkable for the large conical tubercles which cover the under surface..

Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) 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..

Parapodium :: Parapodium (n.) One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also foot tubercle.

Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) 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..

Polyphemus :: Polyphemus (n.) A very large American moth (Telea polyphemus) belonging to the Silkworm family (Bombycidae). Its larva, which is very large, bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm..

Spherulate :: Spherulate (a.) Covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles..

Tuber :: Tuber (n.) A tuberosity; a tubercle.

Fasciole :: Fasciole (n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea..

Tuberculin :: Tuberculin (n.) A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.

Tubercular :: Tubercular (a.) Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence..

Coronated :: Coronated (a.) Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines; -- said of spiral shells.

Miliary :: Miliary (n.) One of the small tubercles of Echini.

Turreted :: Turreted (a.) Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zool.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells..

Pearl :: Pearl (n.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.

Tuberculosis :: Tuberculosis (n.) A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumption..

Turbot :: Turbot (n.) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke..

Cachexy :: Cachexy (n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle)..

Metapophysis :: Metapophysis (n.) A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebr/; a mammillary process.

Tubercular :: Tubercular (a.) Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis..

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