tubercle : Idioms & Phrases

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Foot tubercle

  • . (Zoöl.) See Parapodium.
Webster 1913

montgomery's tubercle

  • noun one of the sebaceous glands on the areolae of the breast that lubricate the breast during breast-feeding
WordNet

Tubercle bacillus

  • noun cause of tuberculosis
    Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
WordNet
  • (Med.), a minute vegetable organism (Bacillus tuberculosis) discovered by Koch, a German physician, in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue, and believed to be the exciting cause of tubercles and tuberculosis.
Webster 1913