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tubule


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tubule  \Tu"bule\,  n.  [F.  tubule,  or  L.  tubulus,  dim.  of  tubus  a 
  tube,  a  pipe.] 
  1.  A  small  pipe  or  fistular  body;  a  little  tube. 
 
  2.  (Anat.)  A  minute  tube  lined  with  glandular  epithelium;  as 
  the  uriniferous  tubules  of  the  kidney. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tubule 
  n  :  a  small  tube 




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