Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tubercle

3 senses of tubercle

Sense 1
tubercle -- (a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis)
       => lesion -- (any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part)

Sense 2
nodule, tubercle -- (small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant)
       => plant process, enation -- (a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ)

Sense 3
tuberosity, tubercle, eminence -- (a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament)
       => process, outgrowth, appendage -- (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process")