Lexic.us

Definition of Nodule

1. Noun. A small node.

2. Noun. Small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant.

3. Noun. (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment).

Definition of Nodule

1. n. A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Definition of Nodule

1. Noun. A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nodule

1. a small node [n -S] : NODULAR, NODULOSE, NODULOUS [adj]

Medical Definition of Nodule

1. A small lump, swelling or collection of tissue. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodule

nodular regenerative hyperplasia nodular scleritis nodular subepidermal fibrosis nodular syphilid nodular transformation of the liver nodular tuberculid nodular vasculitis nodularity nodulate nodulated

nodulates nodulating nodulation nodulations nodule (current term) nodule of semilunar valve noduled nodules nodulin nodulose

nodulous nodulus nodulus caroticus nodulus lymphaticus nodulus valvulae semilunaris nodus nodus atrioventricularis nodus buccinatorius nodus cysticus

Literary usage of Nodule

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The nodule and Flocculus.—The nodule is a distinct prominence, forming the anterior ... On each side of the nodule is a thin layer of white substance, ..."

2. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1908)
"nodule larger than those forming the edge and of the same type. There was not the slighest infiltration or redness of the surrounding skin. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1908)
"This area is so remarkable that we propose to give detailed measurements of it, and to show that the lowest nodule-bed is in the ..."

4. Transactions of the American Dental Association at Its ... Annual Session by American Dental Association (1897)
"nodule on Apex of Root. PAPER BY HL AMBLER, OF THE SECTION. A LADY aged about thirty presented for treatment of a chronic abscess of the right superior ..."

5. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"It is favorable in those cases in which a small nodule is situated well forward near the tip of the tongue; less favorable in those in which there is a ..."

6. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
"... of those in which the frustules have a median longitudinal line and a central nodule. In the first of the families which it includes, ..."

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