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Encyclopedia > Tubercle

1.In medical language a tubercle is a round nodule or small eminence found on numerous bones.


An alternate meaning is a small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.


2. (Botany) A tubercle is a small warty outgrowth, such as can be seen on certain leaf surfaces or on the lip of certain orchids, such as the tubercled orchid (Platanthera flava). Tubercles are also found on cacti, such as the Mammillaria compressa, as a much-enlarged leaf base.


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tubercle - Encyclopedia.com (1066 words)
The lateral tubercle is the larger of the two and serves as...
plantar fascia and inflammation at its insertion on the medial tubercle of the calcaneus.
IT is a disease caused by the tubercle bacillus germ, which attacks tissue in the lungs, skin, bones and lymph nodes.
eMedicine - Tibial Tubercle Avulsion : Article Excerpt by: Janos P Ertl, MD (542 words)
A tibial tubercle avulsion fracture is usually an injury to the knee occurring in adolescence, during the transitional phase of physeal closure just prior to completion of growth.
Type II lesions maintain an intact superior contact between the avulsed portion of the tibial tubercle and the remaining portion of the tibial epiphysis.
Pathophysiology: The tibial tubercle physis is in continuity with the tibial plateau.
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