What's the difference between protuberance and tubercle?

Protuberance


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The protuberances arose after an exposure of early-exponential phase cells to digestive enzymes from hepatopancreas of Helix pomatia.
  • (2) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
  • (3) The active zones were distinguishable as regions with an increased density of large particles and vesicle attachment sites represented by P face depressions and E face protuberances.
  • (4) Rotary-replication of quick-frozen, etched postsynaptic membranes enhanced the visibility of these surface protuberances and illustrated that they often occur in dimers, tetramers, and ordered rows.
  • (5) Comparison of this patient with thirteen previously published cases of this trisomy reveals a pattern of common features including: peculiar craniofacial dysmorphism--facial asymmetry, antimongoloid slant, narrow or short palpebral fissures, prominent nose, long upper lip, micro or retrognathia, high arched palate, low set ears, malformed ears, protuberant occiput--, abnormal fingers and toes, short neck, mental and growth retardation, cardiopathy, respiratory distress etc..
  • (6) A 51-year-old Caucasian man presented with a yellowish lesion containing multiple protuberances over his right cheek.
  • (7) Other features which conform to previous reports are a peculiar face with a long philtrum, protuberant lower lip, relative micrognathia, large dysplastic ears, excessive loose skin folds around the scalp, neck and trunk, large hands with camptodactyly, varus deformities of the feet and a hoarse, low-pitched voice.
  • (8) Characteristic protuberant structures were observed on cells of all cellulolytic strains.
  • (9) In osteo-onychodysostosis, characteristic osseous horns arise from the posterior iliac wings, whereas in Type IX Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, similar protuberances extend inferiorly from the occiput.
  • (10) The indentations and protuberances of the cranial bones in the region of the middle cranial fossa were regarded as reflecting prominent indentations of the gyri and were attributed no pathological significance.
  • (11) Some ciliated cells were also seen to exhibit protuberant mucus protrusion.
  • (12) An artifactual protuberance at the surface of the liver in connection with an incomplete acoustic shadow is described.
  • (13) Patients develop a thoracic kyphosis, a lumbar lordosis, and a protuberant abdomen with prominent horizontal skinfold creases.
  • (14) Upon further incubation at 37 degrees C, Con A was internalized over the entire cell periphery of the rounded, untreated cells but on collagenase-treated PMNs was rapidly gathered into a cap overlying the uropod or protuberant region of cytoplasm where it was subsequently internalized.
  • (15) Oxystomatous crabs of the subfamily Calappinae, particularly the genus Calappa, possess a large tooth on the dactyl and a pair of protuberances on the propodus of the right cheliped.
  • (16) The first case was a six-year-old girl with tumor in the right nostril and epipharynx, the second was a 66-year-old male patient with protuberances in the hypopharynx.
  • (17) The protuberant form of the papilla developed much earlier than the calyceal muscle which was observed in the late stage of intrauterine life.
  • (18) In the margin of non cornified squamous cell carcinomas there are as well bud-like cytoplasmic protuberances like microvilli as microplicae.
  • (19) The young cyst is enclosed by a cyst wall containing numerous small protuberances.
  • (20) When this fundamental plane was projected to the lateral view on CT scan, it appeared to be almost identical to the line connecting the tip of posterior clinoid process to the internal occipital protuberance (the fundamental line).

Tubercle


Definition:

  • (n.) A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.
  • (n.) A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Patellar subluxation may improve substantially following either lateral release or anteromedial tibial tubercle transfer, but this study suggests that correction of subluxation is less consistent than reduction of abnormal tilt with tibial tubercle transfer or lateral release alone.
  • (2) Mycobacterium africanum Yaoundé and Rwanda were more heat-resistant than the tubercle bacilli.
  • (3) We report the case of a man with atypical pain and X-rays modifications of the radial tubercle.
  • (4) A possible role of the olfactory tubercle in olfactory transduction will also be discussed.
  • (5) The tendons of insertion of the latissimus dorsi and the teres major muscles and the tendon of origin of the long head of the triceps brachii muscle were united, forming a conjoint tendon that attached to the infraglenoid tubercle of the scapula and the lower part of the anatomical neck of the humerus adhering to the articular capsule of the shoulder joint.
  • (6) In contrast, the efferent projections of the main olfactory bulb are distributed to the anterior olfactory nucleus, the tenia tecta, the olfactory tubercle, the pyriform cortex, the anterior cortical amygdaloid area, the posterolateral cortical amygdaloid area, and to the lateral entorhinal cortex.
  • (7) The second, the normal tubercle for insertion of the transverse ligament of the atlas, may look like a separate ossicle or a chip fracture.
  • (8) The fraction "S" induces the modification of tubercle bacilli into non acid-fast bacteria forming smooth colonies on nutritive glycerol agar within 24-36 h of incubation.
  • (9) The dopamine and norepinephrine content of the nucleus accumbens, olfactory tubercle and corpus striatum were assayed ipsilaterally and contralaterally in unilaterally lesioned rats sacrificed 2, 5, 10, and 20 days after the placement of the lesions.
  • (10) This suggests that the anti-cord factor antibody exerts an infection-protecting effect by neutralizing the toxic action of cord factor during the course of living virulent infection with tubercle bacilli.
  • (11) Differentiation from other closely related species obtained experimentally from rodents is possible: bovis: no spines on the tubercles; haematobium: tubercles 10 to 15 microns wide with closely packed spines; curassoni: tubercles over 15 microns wide, with large, closely packed spines; intercalatum: tubercles under 10 microns wide, with scattered spines.
  • (12) Five cases of subluxation and six of secondary displacement of the tubercles were noted.
  • (13) We developed two PCR methods, which amplify bovine tuberculous MPB70 gene and mycobacterial 16S rRNA gene, for detection of tubercle bacilli and mycobacteria in sputum, respectively.
  • (14) It is postulated that a large excess of pyridoxal in Sauton's medium protects tubercle bacilli from the effects of isoniazid through formation of an extracellular complex involving drug, vitamin, and certain medium constituents, thereby reducing the level of isoniazid available to the cells.
  • (15) Evoked dopamine release was monitored in vivo from the olfactory tubercle of anaesthetized rats by differential pulse amperometry combined with carbon fibre electrodes which, in most cases, were electrochemically treated.
  • (16) Morphine was shown to enhance dopamine release in the rat olfactory tubercle, nucleus accumbens, prefrontal cortex and pyriform cortex, as assessed by increased 3-methoxytyramine (3-MT) levels and 3-MT accumulation after pargyline treatment.
  • (17) Increased densities of carbachol-resistant and pirenzepine-sensitive sites (M1 receptor subtype) were apparent over many forebrain structures including the olfactory tubercle, caudate-putamen, nucleus accumbens, hippocampus, amygdala and cerebral cortex.
  • (18) A study of rifabutin in the retreatment of patients with chronic pulmonary tuberculosis whose strains of tubercle bacilli were resistant to all three of the drugs isoniazid, streptomycin, and rifampicin, and usually to others as well, was undertaken in 22 Chinese patients in Hong Kong.
  • (19) Paragonimiasis can masquerade as pulmonary tuberculosis, especially in patients from areas that are endemic for both the parasite and the tubercle bacillus.
  • (20) In the reconstruct procedure, both the bony attachment of the lateral capsular ligament and the iliotibial tract with Gerdy's tubercle have been moved anteriorly and inferiorly without separating their interconnections or any attachments.