Nodule

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 31

(nod'-ul). A little knot or excrescence; a tubercle; in dermatology, an elevation of the skin varying in size from a split pea to a hazelnut, and due to a cellular infiltration (granuloma of Virchow). N. of Aurantius. See Corpus. N. of Cerebellum, the termination of the inferior vermiform proce of the cerebellum situated in front of the uvula. N. of Morgagni. Same as N. of Aurantius.