Tu"bule (?), n. [F. tubule, or L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, a pipe.]
1.
A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube.
2. Anat.
A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.
© Webster 1913.
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