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Tuberosity   Listen
noun
Tuberosity  n.  (pl. tuberosities)  
1.
The state of being tuberous.
2.
An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance.





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"Tuberosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... kept extended; there is no pain if the same manoeuvre is repeated with the knee flexed. The nerve is sensitive to pressure, the most tender points being its emergence from the greater sciatic foramen, the hollow between the trochanter and the ischial tuberosity, and where the common peroneal nerve winds round the neck of the fibula. The muscles of the thigh are often wasted and are ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles


Words linked to "Tuberosity" :   tuberous, appendage, tubercle, process, deltoid eminence, deltoid tuberosity


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