TUBERCULATION Synonyms

• a lump on the body caused by a blow

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• an impact (as from a collision)

• knock against with force or violence

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward

• assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

• remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied

• to enjoy some music greatly

• to play music at loud volume

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• a progression from simpler to more complex forms

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• vegetation that has grown

• the gradual beginning or coming forth

• (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)

• something grown or growing

• a small node

• small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant

• (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment)

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out

• a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament

• any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

• an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)

• (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus