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right|250px|thumb|This view of the cactus Mammillaria marksiana shows its pattern of prominent tubercles, with the spines emanating from each tubercle's tip.

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  • In plants
  • In fungi
  • In animals
  • In humans
  • Mouth
  • Bones
  • Lungs
  • Ears
  • Genitals
  • Brain
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right|250px|thumb|This view of the cactus Mammillaria marksiana shows its pattern of prominent tubercles, with the spines emanating from each tubercle's tip.

In anatomy, a tubercle (literally 'small tuber', Latin for 'lump') is any round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on external or internal organs of a plant or an animal.

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