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

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

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..

Tuberculated :: Tuberculated (a.) Tubercled; tubercular.

Tuberculization :: Tuberculization (n.) The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.

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

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..

Scrobicula :: Scrobicula (n.) One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.

Tubercled :: Tubercled (a.) Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk..

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..

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

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

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)..

Tuberculous :: Tuberculous (a.) Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular..

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve..

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..

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..

Miliary :: Miliary (a.) Small and numerous; as, the miliary tubercles of Echini..

Tubercular :: Tubercular (a.) Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

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

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