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nodosity|nəʊˈdɒsɪtɪ|
[ad. L. nōdōsitas (whence also F. nodosité, It. nodosita), f. nōdōs-us: see prec. and -ity.]
1. The state or quality of being nodose or knotty.
1611Florio, Nodosita,..knottinesse, nodosity. 1656Blount Glossogr., Nodosity,..knottiness, knobbiness. 1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 275 The Clinical History of the Nodosity of the Joints. 1837Carlyle Mirabeau Misc. 1869 V. 133 It is very beautiful, this mild strength,..in contrast with his brother's nodosity. 1839–47Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Phys. III. 255/1 A tumour..like a shelled walnut in point of size and nodosity.
2. A knotty swelling or protuberance.
1601Holland Pliny II. 311 The same ointment..abateth the tumors & nodosities vpon the ioints. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. v. 239 That tortuosity, or complicated nodosity, we usually call the Navell. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 171 Such are the Nodosities..to be found in Ash as well as Maple. a1791Burke in Boswell Johnson an. 1781, It has all the nodosities of the oak without its strength. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 165 A dorsal fin in some species; nodosities on the back in others. 1872Cohen Dis. Throat 182 These nodosities..are softer than the rest of the substance. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 468 Tender nodosities or nodes on the shins.
fig.1808Knox & Jebb Corresp. (1834) I. 461 There does not seem to remain in him a single doctrine nodosity. 1892Academy 6 Feb. 125/1 These nodosities upon the golden thread of an otherwise fine diction. |