Definition of Nodose

1. a. Knotty; having numerous or conspicuous nodes.

Definition of Nodose

1. Adjective. Knot-like; swollen ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nodose

1. having nodes [adj]

Medical Definition of Nodose

1. Having nodes or projections. Origin: L. Nodosus This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodose

nodi lymphatici submentales
nodi lymphatici superiores centrales
nodi lymphatici supraclaviculares
nodi lymphatici thyroidei
nodi lymphatici tracheobronchiales inferiores
nodi lymphatici tracheobronchiales superiores
nodi lymphatici vesicales laterales
nodi retropylorici
nodi subpylorici
nodi viscerales
nodical
nodosarine
nodosarines
nodosaurid
nodosaurids
nodose (current term)
nodose ganglion
nodose rheumatism
nodositas
nodosities
nodosity
nodous
nodoventricular fibres
nods
nodular
nodular amyloidosis
nodular arteriosclerosis
nodular disease

Literary usage of Nodose

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1892)
"nodose rheumatism in children should be distinguished from the same disease in adults by the following peculiarities: many joints are involved at an early ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1895)
"nodose periarteritis, as the condition has been very happily termed, can hardly be said to have found a place in English textbooks of pathology. ..."

3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1892)
"The longest hairs obtained measured about two inches; these are not nodose. The nodose hairs are all very short. Over the top and sides of the scalp the two ..."

4. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Panicle 8 to 15 inches long, much branched, expanding; branches slender, scabrous, pilose in the axils, the main ones nodose at base, divaricate \\hen old. ..."

5. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"... lid convex, apiculate; inner membrane very large, ascending to the middle of the teeth; segments carinate, entire; cilia irregular and nodose. ..."

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