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A protuberance; a mass; a nodule.

- aortic k. the prominent shadow of the aortic arch on a frontal chest radiograph.

- Engelmann basal knobs obsolete eponym for blepharoplast.

- malarial knobs rounded protrusions of a red blood cell infected with Plasmodium falciparum, responsible for the adhesion of infected red cells to one another and to the endothelium of the blood vessel s containing these infected cells; results in capillary blockage responsible for much of the pathology of malignant tertian malaria.

knob 'näb n a rounded protuberance or lump

knob·by 'näb-ē adj