Usually means: Small, rounded projections on surfaces.
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  1. tubercles: Merriam-Webster
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  1. tubercles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (tubercle)

noun:  (anatomy) A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth, especially those found on bones for the attachment of a muscle or ligament or small elevations on the surface of a tooth.
noun:  (botany) A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti.
noun:  (pathology) A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis.
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