tuberculum
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Origin of tuberculum
1685–95; < New Latin, Latin
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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)
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
The tuberculum and capitulum on each of the trunk ribs are separated only by a shallow concavity.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
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)
Each rib has a process, the tuberculum, going up to articulate with the transverse process, and one, the capitulum articulating between the bodies of two contiguous vertebrae.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
According to Osler the tubercula dolorosa or true fascicular neuroma is not always made up of nerve-fibers, but, as shown by Hoggan, may be an adenomatous growth of the sweat-glands.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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