Definition of "tubercule" [tubercule]

• Tubercle (noun)

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• "_Diagnosis_, to be certain, requires the demonstration of the tubercule bacilli and the characteristic cell accumulation of the tubercle in a specimen of tissue removed from the lesion."
• "Claus, that the "green gland" really opens at the end of the process described by Milne-Edwards as a "tubercule auditif" and by Spence Bate as an "olfactory denticle.""
• "“Tobias Smollet thus became Europe’s tubercule; the infectious agent coursing the continental arteries.”"