Definition of Nodulous

1. nodule [adj] - See also: nodule

Medical Definition of Nodulous

1. Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodulous

nodular tuberculid
nodular vasculitis
nodularity
nodulate
nodulated
nodulates
nodulating
nodulation
nodulations
nodule
nodule of semilunar valve
noduled
nodules
nodulin
nodulose
nodulous (current term)
nodulus
nodulus caroticus
nodulus lymphaticus
nodulus valvulae semilunaris
nodus
nodus atrioventricularis
nodus buccinatorius
nodus cysticus
nodus fibularis
nodus foraminalis
nodus jugulo-omohyoideus
nodus jugulodigastricus
nodus lacunaris intermedius
nodus lacunaris lateralis

Literary usage of Nodulous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"The forms of diffuse roots are fibrous, fibro- tuberous, tubercular, coralline, nodulous, and monili- form. The fibrous root consists of numerous threadlike ..."

2. Lessons in the Structure, Life, and Growth of Plants, for Schools and Academies by Alphonso Wood, Oliver Rivington Willis (1889)
"The forms of diffuse roots are fibrous, fibro- tuberous, tubercular, coralline, nodulous, and monili- form. The fibrous root consists of numerous threadlike ..."

3. Exotic Conchology: Or, Figures and Descriptions of Rare, Beautiful, Or by William Swainson, Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1841)
"... which become obsolete ere they meet the nodulous zones which gird its volutions. I know not its precise locality. It averages in length three inches. ..."

4. Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida: With Special Reference to by William Healey Dall (1890)
"... the points of the waves nodulous and the spirals keeled on their posterior ... wider and more strongly nodulous than the others, which are alternated in ..."

5. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1882)
"Strong, elevated, nodulous spiral lines, or cinguli, separated ,by narrower, deep grooves, cover the surface of all the whorls below the nucleus, ..."

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