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Raretubercles
The correct spelling is tubercles.
How to pronounce tubercles
noun
Say it like: Tub-erc-les
The correct spelling is tubercles. A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.
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Definition
noun
- 1.A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.
- 2.A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
- 3.A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
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