Search Result for "tuberosity": 
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament;
[syn: tuberosity, tubercle, eminence]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tuberosity \Tu`ber*os"i*ty\, n.; pl. Tuberosities. [Cf. F. tub['e]rosit['e].] 1. The state of being tuberous. [1913 Webster] 2. An obtuse or knoblike prominence; a protuberance. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tuberosity n 1: a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament [syn: tuberosity, tubercle, eminence]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuberosity": bas-relief, bellying, boldness, bulging, camber, convexedness, convexity, convexness, embossment, eminence, excrescence, excrescency, excurvation, excurvature, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, high relief, low relief, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, relief, salience, salient, tuberousness