Difference between Tubercle and Trochanter

What is the difference between Tubercle and Trochanter?

Tubercle as a noun is a round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on bones especially for the attachment of a muscle or ligament. a small elevation on the surface of a tooth. while Trochanter as a noun is in vertebrates with legs, the end of the femur near the hip joint, not including the head or neck.

Tubercle

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A round nodule, small eminence, or warty outgrowth found on bones especially for the attachment of a muscle or ligament. A small elevation on the surface of a tooth. A small rounded wartlike protuberance of the roots of some leguminous plants; the lip of certain orchids, cacti. A small rounded nodule forming the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis. A mass of hyphae from which a mushroom is produced.

Trochanter

Part of speech: noun

Definition: In vertebrates with legs, the end of the femur near the hip joint, not including the head or neck.In some arthropods, the second segment of the leg, between the coxa and the femur.

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