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tuberculum

American  
[too-bur-kyuh-luhm, tyoo-] / tʊˈbɜr kjə ləm, tjʊ- /

noun

tubercula plural
  1. a tubercle.


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noun

Etymology

Origin of tuberculum

1685–95; < New Latin, Latin

Example Sentences

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The latter articulate with the tuberculum of the corresponding rib, while the capitulum articulates by a knob on the side of the anterior end of the centrum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

Rhinencephalon designates the regions which are pre-eminently olfactory in function: the olfactory bulb, its peduncle, the tuberculum olfactorium and locus perforatus, the pyriform lobe, the paraterminal body, and the whole hippocampal formation.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock

Above each pleurocentrum, on the lateral surface of the neural arch, there is a short diapophysis for articulation with the tuberculum of the rib.

From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)

The tuberculum olfactorium becomes greatly reduced and at the same time flattened; so that it is not easy to draw a line of demarcation between it and the anterior perforated space.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock

On the attachments of the Urodele rib to the vertebra and their homologies with the capitulum and tuberculum of the Amniote rib.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)

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