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1. A knob or nodosity; a circumscribed swelling; in anatomy, a circumscribed mass of tissue. 2. A circumscribed mass of differentiated tissue. 3. A knuckle, or finger joint. SYN: nodus [TA]. [L. nodus, a knot]

- anterior tibial n. SYN: anterior tibial lymph n..

- n. of Aschoff and Tawara SYN: atrioventricular n..

- atrioventricular n. (AV n.) [TA] 1. a small n. of modified cardiac muscle fibers located near the ostium of the coronary sinus; it gives rise to the atrioventricular bundle of the conduction system of the heart; 2. loosely circumscribed conduction tissue with sparse pacemakerlike (P) cells in the atrioventricular junction. SYN: nodus atrioventricularis [TA], n. of Aschoff and Tawara, Tawara n..

- Babès nodes collections of lymphocytes in the central nervous system found in rabies.

- buccinator n., buccal n. SYN: buccal lymph n..

- n. of Cloquet SYN: proximal deep inguinal lymph n..

- coronary n. the uppermost part of the atrioventricular n..

- cystic n. SYN: cystic lymph n..

- delphian n. a midline prelaryngeal lymph n., adjacent to the thyroid gland, enlargement of which is indicative of thyroid disease or early metastasis from the subglottic larynx.

- Dürck nodes perivascular chronic inflammatory infiltrates in the brain, occurring in human trypanosomiasis.

- fibular n. SYN: fibular lymph n..

- Flack n. SYN: sinuatrial n..

- foraminal n. SYN: lymph n. of anterior border of omental foramen.

- Haygarth nodes exostoses from the margins of the articular surfaces and from the periosteum and bone in the neighborhood of the joints of the fingers, leading to ankylosis and associated with lateral deflection of the fingers toward the ulnar side, which occur in rheumatoid arthritis.

- Heberden nodes exostoses about the size of a pea or smaller, found on the terminal phalanges of the fingers in osteoarthritis, which are enlargements of the tubercles at the articular extremities of the distal phalanges. SYN: tuberculum arthriticum (1).

- hemal n. a lymphoid structure in which the blood sinuses are present in place of lymph sinuses; hemal nodes occur in ruminants and some other mammals, but their presence in humans is questioned. SYN: hemal gland, hemolymph gland, hemolymph n., vascular gland.

- hemolymph n. SYN: hemal n..

- Hensen n. SYN: primitive n..

- intermediate lacunar n. SYN: intermediate lacunar lymph n..

- jugulodigastric n. SYN: jugulodigastric lymph n..

- juguloomohyoid n. SYN: juguloomohyoid lymph n..

- Keith n. SYN: sinuatrial n..

- Keith and Flack n. SYN: sinuatrial n..

- Koch n. SYN: sinuatrial n..

- lateral lacunar n. SYN: lateral lacunar lymph n..

- n. of ligamentum arteriosum SYN: lymph n. of ligamentum arteriosum.

- lymph n. lymph n..

- malar n. SYN: malar lymph n..

- mandibular nodes SYN: mandibular lymph n..

- medial lacunar n. SYN: medial lacunar lymph n..

- middle rectal n. SYN: middle rectal lymph n..

- milkers' nodes SYN: milkers' nodules, under nodule.

- nasolabial n. SYN: nasolabial lymph n..

- Osler n. in subacute bacterial endocarditis, circumscribed, painful erythematous swellings, ranging in size from that of a pinhead to that of a pea, in the skin and subcutaneous tissues of the hands and feet. SYN: Osler sign.

- parietal nodes SYN: parietal lymph node s, under lymph n..

- posterior tibial n. SYN: posterior tibial lymph n..

- primitive n. a local thickening of the blastoderm at the cephalic end of the primitive streak of the embryo. SYN: Hensen knot, Hensen n., Hubrecht protochordal knot, primitive knot, protochordal knot.

- promontorial common iliac nodes [TA] nodes of the common iliac group located at the promontory of the sacrum. SYN: nodi lymphoidei iliaci communes promontorii [TA], nodi lymphoidei promontorii.

- n. of Ranvier a short interval in the myelin sheath of a nerve fiber, occurring between each two successive segments of the myelin sheath; at the n., the axon is invested only by short, finger-like cytoplasmic processes of the two neighboring Schwann cells or, in the central nervous system, oligodendroglia cells. SEE ALSO: myelin sheath.

- retropyloric nodes SYN: retropyloric lymph node s, under lymph n..

- Rosenmüller n. SYN: proximal deep inguinal lymph n..

- n. of Rouviere one of the lateral group of retropharyngeal lymph node s. See retropharyngeal lymph node s, under lymph n..

- S-A n. abbreviation for sinoatrial n..

- sentinel n. SYN: sentinel lymph n..

- signal n. See signal lymph n..

- singer's nodes SYN: vocal cord nodules, under nodule.

- sinoatrial n. (S-A n.) SYN: sinuatrial n..

- sinuatrial n. [TA] the mass of specialized cardiac muscle fibers that normally acts as the “pacemaker” of the cardiac conduction system; it lies under the epicardium at the upper end of the sulcus terminalis. SYN: nodus sinuatrialis [TA], atrionector, Flack n., Keith and Flack n., Keith n., Koch n., sinoatrial n., sinus n..

- sinus n. SYN: sinuatrial n..

- subdigastric n. SYN: jugulodigastric lymph n..

- subpyloric n. SYN: subpyloric lymph node s, under lymph n..

- suprapyloric n. SYN: suprapyloric lymph n..

- Tawara n. SYN: atrioventricular n..

- teacher's nodes SYN: vocal cord nodules, under nodule.

- Troisier n. SYN: Troisier ganglion.

- Virchow n. SYN: signal lymph n..

- visceral nodes SYN: visceral lymph node s, under lymph n..

- vital n. SYN: noeud vital.

node 'nōd n

1 a) a pathological swelling or enlargement (as of a rheumatic joint)

b) a body part resembling a knot esp a discrete mass of one kind of tissue enclosed in tissue of a different kind see ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE, LYMPH NODE

2) a point, line, or surface of a vibrating body that is free or relatively free of vibratory motion

a small swelling or knot of tissue. See atrioventricular node, lymph node, sinoatrial node.