Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A very small tube or tubular structure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small tube or pipe: as, the uriniferous or seminiferous tubules. See
tubulus , and cut underMalpighian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
- noun (Anat.) A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
pipe or fistular body; a littletube .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small tube
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The third segment of the tubule is the distal convoluted tubule, which is again found in the cortex.
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The third segment of the tubule is the distal convoluted tubule, which is again found in the cortex.
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When I snapped my first picture under the electron microscope, I was breathless at the detail of the image: I could see the long, lovely arch of the interior of a seminiferous tubule and a great mass of flagella whipping out into the lumen.
Seed - Faith and the Scientific Image William Harryman 2009
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Small female students of different classes presented tubule, national anthem, national songs, cultural demonstration and other so many colorful performance who enthralled the audiences.
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Zuhran Shah also distributed prizes among the students who participated in tubule.
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The epididymis is a very tiny, tightly coiled tubule, which runs along the back of the testicle from top to bottom.
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Extraction from a river is the cheapest and from a tubule the most expensive option.
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The epididymis is a very tiny, tightly coiled tubule, which runs along the back of the testicle from top to bottom.
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I think most of the food in the book is not tubule; most of it's delta cooking.
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First of all, there's a recipe about tubule and what's southern about that?
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