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Definitions: Nodule |
NoduleNoun1. A small node. 2. Small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nodule" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Nodule \Nod"ule\, noun. [Latin expression nodulus, diminutive of nodus knot: compare to the French expression nodule.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Industry | A small fibre cluster resulting from an incomplete defibration of the fibre material or consisting of fibres which have become entangled in each other. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Small rounded or knotty lump of anything. Small aggregate of graphite or amorphous carbon in ductile(nodular or spheroidal graphite)cast iron as well as in malleable cast iron. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A small, irregularly rounded knot, mass, or lump of a mineral or mineral aggregate, normally having a warty or knobby surface and no internal structure, and usually exhibiting a contrasting composition from the enclosing sediment or rock; e.g., a nodule of pyrite in a coalbed, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphatic nodule in marine strata. Nodules can be separated as discrete masses from the host material b. One of the widely scattered concretionary lumps of manganese, cobalt, iron, and nickel found on the floors of the world's oceans; esp. a manganese nodule. Etymol: Latin nodulus, small knot. CF:concretio c. A rounded material accretion built of successive layers, of easily handled size d. A small, rounded, irregularly shaped mass, as those of graphite inmalleable cast iron e.g., a nodule of pyrite in a coalbed, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphatic nodule in marine strata. Nodules can be separated as discrete masses from the host material. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term is also used in geology to refer to a small knobbly rock or mineral cluster.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nodule."
Synonym: NoduleSynonym: tubercle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf; (sharpness); bow; mamelon; molar; belly, corporation, pot belly, gut; withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nodule |
| English words defined with "nodule": chancre ♦ Eaglestone ♦ Geode ♦ Knurl ♦ Septarium, Sycite. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "nodule": aetite, asbestos corn, asbestos wart ♦ baum pot, beetle stone ♦ cotton rock, Cystadenocarcinoma, Papillary ♦ deer-fly fever, dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, dust granuloma ♦ Francisella tularensis infection ♦ genial tubercle ♦ Kveim Test ♦ milker's nodule ♦ Nevus, Blue ♦ O'Hara's disease, Ohara's disease ♦ paramoudra, phosphatic nodule ♦ Rheumatoid Nodule, rock nodule ♦ septarian nodule, singer's knot, singer's node, singer's nodule, singers'node, soil nodule ♦ teachers'node, Thyroid Nodule ♦ white flat, winklestone. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nodule" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (knot, nodose, nodule). |
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 | This is advanced malignant melanoma. At the left, one can see a plaque of early, radial growth phase superficial spreading melanoma. To the right, and contiguous with the plaque, is a pink (amelanotic) nodule of deeply invasive vertical growth phase melanoma. Melanomas diagnosed at this stage have a poor prognosis; many of these patients develop metastatic disease and die from their cancer. In the majority of instances, the plaque stage of melanoma is present for a sufficient period of time to permit its diagnosis and removal before it progresses to a more advanced (and more difficult to treat) stage.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Dysplastic nevus evolving into malignant melanoma. This 40-year-old female member of a melanoma-prone family had a cluster of moles located on her back (a), which were believed to represent dysplastic nevi and were photographed to facilitate subsequent follow-up. When reexamined 18 months later, the upper dysplastic nevus (arrow) had developed a new 3-mm black nodule (shown in this slide), which proved to be invasive malignant melanoma arising in a dysplastic nevus.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Rheumatoid nodule, subcutaneous tissue near elbow.Credit: CDC. |  | Histopathology of Onchocerca volvulus nodule. Onchocerciasis. Parasite.Credit: CDC. |
 | Computed tomography scan showing single pulmonary nodule of histoplasmosis. Coin lesion.Credit: CDC. |  | Chest radiograph showing single pulmonary nodule of histoplasmosis. Coin lesion.Credit: CDC. |
 | Nodular skin lesions of blastomycosis, one of which is a bullous lesion on top of a nodule. Aspiration of the bulla revealed yeast forms of Blastomyces dermatitidis.Credit: CDC. |  | In this image two gummas are seen in this liver specimen. At the lower periphery, one is seen as a firm, white, somewhat irregular nodule. The other is hemorrhagic and largely necrotic.Credit: CDC. |
 | The introduction of toxins into the marine environment have drastic effects on the organisms that live there. The pathology of this Windowpane Flounder shows a liver nodule.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Chief Oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and chief scientist aboard the USC&GS Ship PIONEER during the International Indian Ocean Expedition, discussing bottom sampling while holding a large manganese nodule.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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Health | The first nodule may appear any time from 1 to 12 weeks after exposure to the fungus. (references) | |
Fibroids may grow as a single nodule or in clusters and may range in size from 1 mm to more than 20 cm (8 inches) in diameter. (references) | ||
Sporotrichosis can be confirmed when a doctor obtains a swab or a biopsy of a freshly opened skin nodule and submits it to a laboratory for fungal culture. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Cuba | At the time, he was spitting blood because of a nodule on his lung. (references) |
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| "Nodule" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nodule" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nodule": lympathic nodule ♦ milker's nodule ♦ nodule bacteria ♦ phosphatic nodule ♦ Rheumatic Nodule ♦ Rheumatoid Nodule ♦ rock nodule ♦ singer's nodule ♦ soil nodule ♦ Thyroid Nodule. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "nodule": nodule-mining. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "nodule"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nyjëz, zhardhok i vogël, rruzull (ball, bowl, globe, orb, sphere), gungëz (Hubble, knobble), copëz (bit, cantlet, nugget, particle, Pat, scrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عقدة صغيرة, عجيرة, بنورة (marble, node). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чвор (knag, Nodus, nub), чеп (bung, burr, fauces, knag, knar, knot, knur, knurl, Nodus, nub, peg, plug, spigot, spile, tap, toggle), конкрекция, коленце, възелче, включение (enclosure), валчесто образувание, малък възел. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 疣 (wart), 瘤. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uzlina, uzlík, pecka (belt, biff, stone, wallop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nodulus, nodul (sinter), sinter (clinker, sinter), piller (bead, node, pearl), perler (bead, beads, node, pearl, pearls, purls), lille knude (tubercle), kugler, knude (atrioventricular node, burbot, droplet, eel pout, knot, netting knot, nodal point, node, nodesity, nodositas, nodosity, nodus, snarl, tear drop, tubercle, vertex), knold (clod, root tuber, tuber), fiberbundt (bast bundle, bundle, bundle of fibres, fibre bundle, knot, lump), epitelperler (bead, node, pearl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nodulus, verdikking (boss, intumescence, sinter), temperkool, knoopje (node, nodus), knoop (bend, button, joint, knot, lump, netting knot, neuron-like processing element, nodal point, node), knol (onion, root tuber, tuber, turnip), knobbeltje (node, papule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | noduuli (sinter), sintteri (sinter, tufa), pallomainen erkauma, kuitunuppu (knot, lump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rognon, nodule (nodose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Knötchen (knot, lump, node, papule, tubercle), Knolle (bulb, burl, burr, conk, potato, root tuber, tuber, tubercule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κόνδυλος (condyle, condylus, root tuber, tuber, tuber crop), κόμπος (bend, bow, knot, lump), μικρόσ κόμβοσ, μαργαριτοειδή οξίδια επί βοείου φυματιώσεως (bead, node, pearl), οξίδιο (caruncle, node, nodus), οζίδιο (sinter), θρόμβος (blood clot, blood coagulation, clot, coagulated blood, coagulation, coagulum, cruor, knot, lump, thrombus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קשריר (papule), קטרית. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | göröngy (clod, clod of earth, lump), csomócska. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bintil (small pimple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nodulo (node, nodus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 結節 (knot, tubercule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | けっせつ (knot, tubercule). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | costraylyn ferrish (nodule of bladder wrack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | odulenay nódulo (knot, lump, node, nodus). (various references) nodul (pile), nodozitate (nodosity), geodã. (various references) узелок (papula, papule, tubercle). (various references) kvržica, izraslina (excrescence, growth, knob, knot, lump, node, wen), čvorić (node). (various references) nódulo (bead, knot, lump, node, nodesity, nodositas, nodosity, nodus, pearl). (various references) liten knöl (tubercle). (various references) ตุ่มเล็กๆ. (various references) nodül, yumru (bump, concretion, cupola, excrescence, gallnut, knob, knot, knurl, lump, node, nub, nubble, protuberance, swelling, torus, tuber, tuberose, tuberosity, tuberous, wart), ufak maden parçası, düğüm (gradient, knot, loop, nodal, node, nodosity, tangle, tie, twist), bezecik (node, nodosity). (various references) конкреція (concretion), вузлувате потовщення, вузлик (bead, nub, tubercle), валун (boulder), наріст (excrescence, gnarl, node, outgrowth, snag), жовно, бульбочка рослини. (various references) bướu nh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nodulus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nodule": nodules. (additional references) | |
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"Nodule" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Donuzla, Nahuel, n'dula, Ndume, Niqula, nodle, noduel, notule, noul, Nugdalla, Nurullo, Odulf, Ondule, podule. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nodule" (pronounced nÄ"juwl) |
| 4 | -Ä" j uw l | module. |
| 3 | -j uw l | reschedule. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: louden. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: loden, olden, unled. | |
-2 letters: dole, done, duel, dune, enol, lend, leno, leud, lode, lone, loud, lude, lune, node, noel, nude, unde, undo. | |
-3 letters: del, den, doe, dol, don, due, dun, duo, eld, end, eon, led, leu, nod, ode, old, ole, one, oud, udo. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, el, en, lo, ne, no, nu, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: loudens, lounged, nodules, roundel, unlobed, unloved, unoiled. | |
+2 letters: bludgeon, columned, conclude, delusion, duodenal, elkhound, ensouled, flounced, flounder, insouled, loudened, loudness, nodulose, nucleoid, outlined, roundels, roundlet, unbolted, unclosed, uncloyed, uncoiled, uncooled, undoable, undocile, undouble, unfoiled, unfolded, unfolder, ungloved, unilobed, unloaded, unloader, unlocked, unloosed, unmolded, unplowed, unpolled, unrolled, unsoiled, unsolder, unsolved. | |
+3 letters: andouille, aneuploid, bludgeons, boundless, chondrule, concluded, concluder, concludes, consulted, convulsed, counseled, delousing, delusions, dentulous, doubleton, elkhounds, euglenoid, flounders, groundsel, gunkholed, hellhound, involuted, longitude, loudening, mullioned, nonplused, nucleoids, outlander, pendulous, purloined, roundelay, roundlets, scoundrel, soundable, soundless, splendour, toluidine, unalloyed, unbeloved, unblocked, unblooded, uncloaked, unclogged, unclothed, unclouded, uncolored, uncoupled, undercool, underflow, underplot, undersold, underwool, undoubled, undoubles, unevolved, unfolders, ungodlier, unloaders, unpeopled, unpoliced, unsolders, unspoiled, wonderful, woundless. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 64 75 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- -.. ..- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01100100 01110101 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o d u l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0064 0075 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)488170877871 |
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