/tooh"beuhr keuhl, tyooh"-/ , n.
1. a small rounded projection or excrescence, as on a bone or on the surface of the body.
2. Pathol.
a. a small, firm, rounded nodule or swelling.
b. such a swelling as the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
3. Bot. a tuberlike swelling or nodule.
[ 1570-80; tuberculum. See TUBER 1 , -CLE 1 ]