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A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Having little knots or lumps.

One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.

iety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

A mass or nodule of solid matter formed by growing together, by congelation, condensation, coagulation, induration, etc.; a clot; a lump; a calculus. Accidental ossifications or deposits of phosphates of lime in certain organs . . . are called osseous concretions. Dunglison.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.

A nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.

A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

h spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anæsthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the…

One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.

Of, pertaining to, or in the form of, a nodule or knot.

Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.

Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. Phosphatic diathesis (Med.), a habit of body which leads to the undue excretion of phosphates with the urine.

A flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.

A nodule of flint, or a pebble, which resembles a fig. [Obs.]

Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated. Woodward.

The nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf.