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 TUBERCLE. A small nodule of glandular cells con stituting the condition called tuberculosis.

TUBERCULAR. Pertaining to or containing tubercles.

TUBERCULOSIS. An infectious disease due to a specific bacillus, characterized by the formation of tubercles.

TYPHOID. Resembling typhus. Typhoid fever is a continued acute, infectious fever, with intestinal lesions, etc.

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ULCER. Suppuration upon a free surface; an open sore.

UMBILICAL .CORD. The navel-string attaching the fetus to the placenta or after-birth.

UMBILICUS. The narrow and deep impression in the center of the abdomen, marking where the fetus was attached to the placenta by the navel-string; the navel.

UNITY. The state or condition of being one ; oneness ; singleness.

URETER. A tube carrying urine from kidney to bladder.

URETHRA. The excretory canal of the bladder.

URETHRITIS. Inflammation of the urethra.

URIC. Contained in or derived from urea, which is the chief solid constituent of urine, and is the principal waste product of tissue-decomposition.

URINE. The excretion of the kidneys.

UTERUS. The hollow muscular organ of the female generative system in which the fetus is contained during pregnancy.