Nodule - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nodule Page: 2Leprosy
A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish shining slightly prominent spots with spreading edges These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules frequently producing great deformity In one variety of the disease anaeligsthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom In addition there may be wasting of the muscles falling out of the hair and nails and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints It is incurable and is probably contagious...
VerbarLienculus
One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen an accessory or supplementary spleen...
Noduled
Having little knots or lumps...
Peyers glands
Patches of lymphoid nodules in the walls of the small intestiness agminated glands called also Peyers patches In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease...
Phosphatic
Pertaining to or containing phosphorus phosphoric acid or phosphates as phosphatic nodules...
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