tuberculum
[ too-bur-kyuh-luhm, tyoo- ]
noun,plural tu·ber·cu·la [too-bur-kyuh-luh, tyoo-]. /tʊˈbɜr kyə lə, tyʊ-/.
a tubercle.
Origin of tuberculum
11685–95; <New Latin, Latin
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How to use tuberculum in a sentence
The other, the tuberculum, springs from the transverse process.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia | Frank Evers BeddardIn the Mystacocetes the attachment, where it exists, is very loose, and the tuberculum alone is attached to its vertebra.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia | Frank Evers BeddardIn the Odontocetes the ribs have, some of them, the normal attachment by capitulum and tuberculum.
The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia | Frank Evers BeddardThe tuberculum and capitulum on each of the trunk ribs are separated only by a shallow concavity.
A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas | Theodore H. Eaton
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