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• n  a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis
• n  small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant
• n  a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

• Unlike HIV, the tubercle bacillus succumbs to powerful medications.
• There is no basis for the statement that tubercle bacilli growing on the classical media are so modified as to "make experiments inconclusive": for all we know it may be the .
• Recent progress in knowledge of the tubercle bacillus gives color to hopes that the deadly little beast may in the near future surrender unconditionally to the siege of .

• nodule
• tuberosity
• eminence