Medical Dictionary

Müllerian tubercle

noun

variants: or Mullerian tubercle

medical Definition of Müllerian tubercle

: an elevation on the wall of the embryonic urogenital sinus where the Müllerian ducts enter

Biographical Note for müllerian tubercle

Müller, Johannes Peter (1801–1858), German physiologist and anatomist. Müller is generally acclaimed as one of the greatest biologists of all time. In 1834–40 he published a handbook of physiology that ranks as the first great text on that subject produced in the 19th century. In histology he described the microscopic anatomy of a large series of secreting glands. He was the first to classify the excretory system of the glands as an independent system of tubes; he noted that the blood vessels formed only a capillary network. He described the Müllerian duct in 1825.