Associations to the word «Tuberosity»

Wiktionary

TUBEROSITY, noun. (uncountable) The condition of being tuberous
TUBEROSITY, noun. (countable) (medicine) A rounded protuberance, at the end of a bone, to which a muscle or tendon is attached

Dictionary definition

TUBEROSITY, noun. A protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope