TUBERCLES Synonyms

• a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure

• a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• a progression from simpler to more complex forms

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• vegetation that has grown

• the gradual beginning or coming forth

• (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

• something grown or growing

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward

• have sexual intercourse with

• a circular rounded projection or protuberance

• a round handle

• any thickened enlargement

• an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger

• a compact mass

• an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

• an awkward stupid person

• a large piece of something without definite shape

• put together indiscriminately

• group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side

• a small node

• small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant

• (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment)

• a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

• the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

• a planned undertaking

• any structure that branches out from a central support

• any solid convex shape that juts out from something

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

• the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality

• the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

• the act of projecting out from something

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out

• an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

• any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

• an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)

• (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

• high status importance owing to marked superiority

• a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

• a small node

• small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant

• (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment)

• a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament