tuberosity

tuberosity

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin tuba
Latin tubusder.
Middle French tubeder.
English tube
English -er
English tuber
English -osity
English tuberosity

    From tuber + -osity.

    Pronunciation

    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌtjuːbəˈrɒsɪti/
    • Audio (Midwestern US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɒsɪti

    Noun

    tuberosity (countable and uncountable, plural tuberosities)

    1. (uncountable) The condition of being tuberous
    2. (countable, anatomy) A rounded protuberance, at the end of a bone, to which a muscle or tendon is attached.
      • 2002, T. H. Worthy, The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand, page 128:
        The basitemporal platform is flat in posterior view because the mamillar tuberosities are very weakly developed.
      • 2018, Guilherme Carvalhal Ribas, Applied Cranial-Cerebral Anatomy:
        The superior aspect of the supramarginal gyrus lies underneath the euryon, which corresponds to the most prominent point of the parietal tuberosity or bossa […]

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