Chapter Trygon to Tubulated of T by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. 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.

2. (Med.) 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.

Tubercle bacillus (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.

Tubercled
(Tu"ber*cled) a. Having tubercles; affected with, tubercles; tuberculate; as, a tubercled lung or stalk.

Tubercular
(Tu*ber"cu*lar) a.

1. Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.

2. Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence.

3. (Med.) Characterized by the development of tubercles; as, tubercular diathesis.

Tuberculate
(Tu*ber"cu*late Tu*ber"cu*la`ted) a. [NL. tuberculatus: cf. F. tuberculé.] Tubercled; tubercular.

Tuberculin
(Tu*ber"cu*lin) n. [See Tubercle.] A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.

Tuberculization
(Tu*ber`cu*li*za"tion) n. (Med.) The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.

Tuberculose
(Tu*ber"cu*lose` Tu*ber"cu*lous) a. Having tubercles; affected with, or characterized by, tubercles; tubercular.

Tuberculosis
(||Tu*ber`cu*lo"sis) n. [NL. See Tubercle.] (Med.) 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.

Tuberculum
(||Tu*ber"cu*lum) n.; pl. Tubercula [L., dim. of tuber a swelling.] (Zoöl.) A tubercle.

Tuberiferous
(Tu`ber*if"er*ous) a. [Tuber + - ferous.] Producing or bearing tubers.

Tuberose
(Tube"rose`) n. [Cf. G. tuberose, F. tubéreuse, NL. Polianthes tuberosa. See Tuberous.] (Bot.) A plant (Polianthes tuberosa) with a tuberous root and a liliaceous flower. It is much cultivated for its beautiful and fragrant white blossoms.

Tuberose
(Tu"ber*ose`) a. Tuberous.

Tuberosity
(Tu`ber*os"i*ty) n.; pl. Tuberosities [Cf. F. tubérosité.]

1. The state of being tuberous.

2. An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.

Tuberous
(Tu"ber*ous) a. [L. tuberosus: cf. F. tubéreux. See Tuber, and cf. also Tuberose.]

1. Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.