Lexic.us

Definition of Nodular

1. Adjective. Relating to or characterized by or having nodules. "Nodular vaginitis"

2. Adjective. Having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules. "Nodular ores"

Definition of Nodular

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.

Definition of Nodular

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a nodule or nodules. ¹

2. Adjective. Possessing, comprised of, or similar in form to ''nodules''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nodular

1. nodule [adj] - See also: nodule

Medical Definition of Nodular

1. Bumpy. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodular

nodical nodosarine nodosarines nodosaurid nodosaurids nodose nodose ganglion nodose rheumatism nodositas nodosities

nodosity nodous nodoventricular fibres nods nodular (current term) nodular amyloidosis nodular arteriosclerosis nodular disease nodular episcleritis nodular fasciitis

nodular headache nodular hidradenoma nodular histiocytic lymphoma nodular hyperplasia of prostate nodular iritis nodular leprosy nodular lymphoma nodular melanoma

Literary usage of Nodular

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

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"On the Occurrence of the nodular Concretions (Coal Balls) in the Lower Coal Measures. By JAMES LOMAX. During the last fourteen or fifteen years that I have ..."

2. The Nature of Ore Deposits by Richard Beck (1905)
"The nodular ore of this region is found in cavities in the Franconian dolomite (upper white Jura), which forms the surface of extensive plateaus. ..."

3. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1906)
"nodular Disease in IN SHEEP. (Tj) Indicating counties in ... Not many years ago nodular disease was unknown in Ohio. It is now reported more frequently ..."

4. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1886)
"nodular or Concretionary Structure. In many stratified rocks are found nodules ... nodular concretions seem to occur whenever any substance is diffused in ..."

5. Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Old Age by Jean Martin Charcot, Alfred Lebbeus Loomis (1881)
"Arthropathies arising from nodular Rheumatism—Often Resemble, ... From a medical point of view, nodular rheumatism is the most interesting of the three ..."

6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"HYPERTROPHIC nodular GLIOSIS. BY JOSEPH SAILER, MD, Associate in the Pepper ... Hypertrophic nodular gliosis of the brain does not appear to have escaped ..."

7. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1900)
"The Ravensthorpe Range consists of much altered, probably sedimentary, rocks, since changed into banded quartzites, and now covered with nodular ironstones ..."

8. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"Progressive chronic articular rheumatism or nodular rheumatism. ... As you already know, we have to deal with nodular rheumatism, or progressive chronic ..."

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