NODULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nodular mean? 

• NODULAR (adjective)
  The adjective NODULAR has 2 senses:

1. relating to or characterized by or having nodules

2. having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules

  Familiarity information: NODULAR used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NODULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or characterized by or having nodules

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Nodular vaginitis

Pertainym:

nodule (a small node)

Derivation:

nodule (a small node)

nodule ((mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment))

nodule (small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having nodules or occurring in the form of nodules

Synonyms:

nodular; nodulated; noduled

Context example:

nodular ores

Similar:

unshapely (not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape)

Derivation:

nodule (a small node)

nodule ((mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment))

nodule (small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant)

 Context examples 

Most cases present as nodular lesions on the digits, usually in the hands.

(Digital Papillary Eccrine Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Grossly, it usually presents as a nodular lesion that measures less than 2 cm in diameter.

(Early Hepatocellular Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A usually slow growing, subcutaneous nodular neoplasm arising from myopericytes.

(Myopericytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually presents as an amelanotic raised nodular lesion.

(Desmoplastic melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An intermediate cutaneous fibrohistiocytic neoplasm, presenting as a nodular cutaneous mass, most often on the trunk and the proximal extremities.

(Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients usually present with papules or nodular lesions.

(Cutaneous Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It may present as solitary or multiple papular or nodular lesions.

(Cylindroma, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called LPHL, lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma, and nodular lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma.

(NLPHL, NCI Dictionary)

It presents as a nodular lesion usually in the scalp, trunk, and proximal extremities.

(Nodular Hidradenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Grossly, it is characterized by the presence of intraductal nodular masses.

(Pancreatic Intraductal Tubulopapillary Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)