Tuber
The term tuber - Latin n. For "bulge", "hump"; metaphorically also “big mistake”; Diminutive: tubercle, tuberculum - stands for:
- Real truffles , a genus within the real sac mushrooms in botany
- Tube (climbing) , term for a type of belay device used in climbing
- in anatomy as a term for a cusp or (often bony) protrusion, for example the cusp of the calcaneus
- in dermatology for a superficial lump in the skin, see efflorescence
- in neurology, a malformation of the cerebral cortex typical of tuberous sclerosis
- in pharmaceuticals for a tuber (the tuber radicis )
- a Greek stoner rock band
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Wiktionary: Tuber - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Tubercula Montgomery , tuberculosis , tuberosity
- YouTuber, see web video producer