Bulb vs Tubercle - What's the difference?
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Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
A light bulb.
The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
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(nautical) a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
(anatomy) A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.
(botany) A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
(pathology) A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
Bulb is a related term of tubercle.
As nouns the difference between bulb and tubercle
is that bulb is any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end while tubercle is (anatomy) a round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.As a verb bulb
is to take the shape of a bulb; to swell.bulb
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Noun
(en noun)- the bulb of the aorta
- the plants which grow in the earth from seed or bulbs .
