Protuberance vs Tubercle - What's the difference?
protuberance | tubercle |
A bulge, knob, swelling, spine or anything that protrudes.
* 1989 — Ben Aaronovitch, Remembrance of the Daleks
(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.
As nouns the difference between protuberance and tubercle
is that protuberance is a bulge, knob, swelling, spine or anything that protrudes while tubercle is 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.protuberance
English
Noun
(en noun)- Ever since their creation the Daleks have been attempting to conquer and enslave as much of the universe as they could get their grubby little protuberances on.