Medical Dictionary nodule
Pronunciation (nod′yūl)
Font SizeA A A A small node; in skin, a node up to 1.0 cm in diameter, solid, with palpable depth; a pulmonary or pleural lesion seen on a radiographic image as a well-defined, discrete, roughly circular opacity 2–30 mm in diameter. Cf.: mass
Syn: nodulus (1)
[L. nodulus, dim. of nodus, knot]
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