tuberosity
nounUK /ˌtjuːbəˈrɒsɪti/
Etymology From tuber + -osity.
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The condition of being tuberous
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Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences A rounded protuberance, at the end of a bone, to which a muscle or tendon is attached.
- The basitemporal platform is flat in posterior view because the mamillar tuberosities are very weakly developed.2002, T. H. Worthy, The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand, page 128:
- The superior aspect of the supramarginal gyrus lies underneath the euryon, which corresponds to the most prominent point of the parietal tuberosity or bossa […]2018, Guilherme Carvalhal Ribas, Applied Cranial-Cerebral Anatomy:
- Derived terms
- deltoid tuberosity, facial tuberosity, ischial tuberosity, olecranon tuberosity, radial tuberosity, tibial tuberosity, tuberoplasty