tuber
The petals of the tuberous begonias are edible.
The roots are tuberous and can be divided.
The plant produces starchy, tuberous, root vegetables used in many regional cuisines.

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air plant
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emergent
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mossy
mugwort
mustard
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spleenwort
starter plug
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Examples of tuberous

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There was no evidence of tuberous sclerosis in brain or kidney.
These lesions all had the appearance of rhabdomyomas, suggesting a high risk for tuberous sclerosis.
The existing neuropathological and neuroimaging literature has concentrated almost exclusively on hamartomata and focal dysplasias as the cerebral hallmarks of tuberous sclerosis.
Prevalence of tuberous sclerosis estimated by capturerecapture analysis.
In the other 2 cases, tuberous sclerosis was confirmed postnatally.
Engagement of the presenting part occurs when the bi-parietal (or bi-tuberous) diameter of the fetal head crosses this plane.
The total number of tuberous lesions present in each patient was agreed by consensus between three raters.
Although 30 to 60% of the patients with rhabdomyomas present with tuberous sclerosis19 as an associated disease, none of our patients had this association.
We suggest that these findings may be consistent with the well-known abnormalities in early brain development that determine tuberous sclerosis.
The study of tuberous sclerosis and its association with autism has been particularly enlightening for understanding autism pathophysiology.
This finding has major importance when counselling parents on the risk of a fetus having tuberous sclerosis.
Tuberous sclerosis or epiloia is another condition where individuals have epilepsy, adenoma sebaceum and phakomata in the brain and ocular fundi.
Open biopsy was performed in all but 4 patients thought to have rhabdomyomata associated with tuberous sclerosis.
No patient had associated tuberous sclerosis.
Pathologically, tuberous scelorosis is a phakomatosis characterized by foci of abnormal tissue development (dysplasia) and by the appearance of developmental tumours (hamartomata) in brain, eyes, kidneys, heart and skin.
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