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nod·ule

 (nŏj′o͞ol)
n.
1. A small knotlike protuberance.
2. Medicine A small, abnormal but usually benign mass of tissue, as on the thyroid gland, in the lung, or under the skin.
3. Botany A small knoblike outgrowth, especially one on the roots of a leguminous plant that contains bacteria that fix nitrogen.
4. Mineralogy A small rounded lump of a mineral or mixture of minerals, usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment.

[Middle English, from Latin nōdulus, diminutive of nōdus, knot; see ned- in Indo-European roots.]

nod′u·lar (nŏj′ə-lər), nod′u·lose′ (-lōs′), nod′u·lous (-ləs) adj.
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Adj.1.nodular - relating to or characterized by or having nodules; "Nodular vaginitis"
2.nodular - having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules; "nodular ores"
unshapely - not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape; "a stout unshapely woman"
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Translations

nodular

[ˈnɒdjʊləʳ] ADJnodular
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nodular

adjknötchenartig
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nodular

adj nodular
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Out of these, 27 cases were reported as nodular goiter, 7 cases as papillary carcinoma, 6 cases as Hashimoto's thyroiditis, 2 cases as lymphocytic thyroiditis, 7 cases as follicular neoplasm, one case as Granulomatous thyroiditis and another case as Anaplastic carcinoma.
He had nodular panniculitis when he was 21 years old.
Objective: To determine the outcome of patients receiving radioactive iodine therapy for toxic nodular goiter coming to Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi.
"In order to prevent the nodular dermatitis from entering Kyrgyzstan, the State Inspectorate for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Security imposed a temporary restriction on the imports of cattle, meat and by-products of cattle and tannery until the epizootic situation is clarified," the report said.
On the basis of clinical and histopathological findings, diagnosis of nodular hidradenoma (NH) was made.
Malignant nodular hidradenoma (MNH), first described as clear cell eccrine carcinoma by Keasbey and Hadley in 1954 (1-3) is an uncommon, highly malignant, primary skin tumor derived from eccrine sweat glands (1-6) accounting for approximately 6% of malignant eccrine tumors.
Nodular hidradenoma is a benign rare skin tumour arising from the eccrine type of sweat glands.
In the medical literature, several other terms can be found, such as nodular cystic fat necrosis (2), encapsulated fat necrosis (3), mobile encapsulated lipoma, (4) and mobile encapsulated adipose tissue (MEAT) (5).
Excisional biopsy of the left inguinal lymph node revealed a partially intact capsule; architecture was effaced by a nodular and diffuse lymphoid infiltrate of predominantly small mature lymphocytes with admixed large atypical lymphocytes.
Here, we report a rare female case of Abernethy malformation type II with a concurrent mass in the right liver, mimicking a hepatocellular carcinoma or hepatoblastoma on computer tomography (CT), which was ultimately confirmed to be nodular hyperplasia by pathology.