tubule

[too-byool, tyoo-]

noun

a small tube; a minute tubular structure.
convoluted tubule.

Origin of tubule

1670–80; < Latin tubulus, equivalent to tub(us) pipe + -ulus -ule

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Examples from the Web for tubule

Historical Examples of tubule

A cast, therefore, indicates the condition of the tubule in which it is formed.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis
James Campbell Todd
The large swollen cells are granular, and very frequently there is a granular mass in the lumen of the tubule.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why
Martha M. Allen
In some cases the cells are so much swollen that the lumen of the tubule is represented merely by a star-shaped radiating chink.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why
Martha M. Allen
The thin wall of the capillaries within each capsule separates the blood from the cavity of the tubule.
A Practical Physiology
Albert F. Blaisdell
Inner and outer aperture of the tubule of the same size; their diameter equal to their length and distance.
Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia)
Ernst Haeckel

British Dictionary definitions for tubule

tubule

noun

any small tubular structure, esp one in an animal, as in the kidney, testis, etc

Word Origin for tubule

C17: from Latin tubulus a little tube

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tubule in Medicine

tubule

[tōō′byōōl]

A very small tube or tubular structure; tubulus.