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Nodule

noun

A small node.

Small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant. Synonym: tubercle.

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

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"Nodule" Quotes from Famous Books

... block the colon at any point, and more particularly at the flexures of the bowel. Still, the three common sites of the accumulation are those just named. The accumulation in the colon may assume the form of a more or less isolated nodule or mass. Thus a considerable lump may be found in the cecum or sigmoid flexure and the rest of the colon be comparatively clear of any gross accumulation. An isolated lump may even persist after free purgation. On the other hand, the accumulation may assume ...

— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

... infection is usually on an uncovered part of the body, such as the face, hands, arms, or back of the neck, and the wound may be exceedingly minute. After an incubation period varying from a few hours to several days, a reddish nodule resembling a small boil appears at the seat of inoculation, the immediately surrounding skin becomes swollen and indurated, and over the indurated area there appear a number of small vesicles containing ...

— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

Words linked to "Nodule" : geode, enation, node, mineralogy, hunk, tubercle, lump, nodular, plant process