tuber.html - n.
1 a the short thick rounded part of a stem or rhizome, usu. found underground and covered with modified buds, e.g. in a potato. b the similar root of a dahlia etc.
2 Anat. a lump or swelling. [L, = hump, swelling]

tuber.html - n.
1 a small rounded protuberance esp. on a bone.
2 a small rounded swelling on the body or in an organ, esp. a nodular lesion characteristic of tuberculosis in the lungs etc.
3 a small tuber; a wartlike growth.

tubercle bacillus a bacterium causing tuberculosis.

tuberculate adj. tuberculous adj. [L tuberculum, dimin. of tuber: see TUBER]

tuber.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

of or having tubercles or tuberculosis.

--n.

a person with tuberculosis. [f. L tuberculum (as TUBERCLE)]

tuber.html - n.
1 the formation of tubercles.
2 a growth of tubercles. [f. L tuberculum (as TUBERCLE)]

tuber.html - n.
a sterile liquid from cultures of tubercle bacillus, used in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.

tuberculin test a hypodermic injection of tuberculin to detect a tubercular infection. tuberculin-tested (of milk) from cows giving a negative response to a tuberculin test. [f. L tuberculum (as TUBERCLE)]

tuber.html - n.
an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis, characterized by tubercles, esp. in the lungs (see also pulmonary tuberculosis).