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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

tubule

, or L.

tubulus

, dim. of

tubus

a tube, a pipe.]

A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.

(Anat.)

A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium;

as, the uriniferous

tubules

of the kidney

Noun.

[L. tubulus.] A small pipe or fistular body.

tubule ‎(plural tubules)

tubule