any small rounded nodule or elevation, esp on the skin, on a bone, or on a plant
2.
any small rounded pathological lesion of the tissues, esp one characteristic of tuberculosis
Word origin
C16: from Latin tūberculum a little swelling, diminutive of tuber
Examples of 'tubercula' in a sentence
tubercula
Three points including anterior edges of bilateral tubercula jugulare and tubercula pharyngeum were selected to form a plane.
Ke TANG, Ya-qun ZHAO, Qing ZHOU, Ce LIU 2017, 'Comparison of far lateral approach versus presigmoidal approach for exposing inferiorclivus by virtual reality technique', Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgeryhttp://www.cjcnn.org/index.php/cjcnn/article/view/1706. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)