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protuberance

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[ UK /pɹətjˈuːbəɹəns/ ]
[ US /pɹəˈtubɝəns, pɹoʊˈtubɝəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
    the hump of a camel
    the bony excrescence between its horns
    the occipital protuberance was well developed
    the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
    he stood on the rocky prominence
  2. the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out
    the protuberance of his belly

How To Use protuberance In A Sentence

  • Another protuberance outlined with two vertical incisions serves as a nose, and a horizontal slash suggests a mouth.
  • _ -- The _meningocele_ is commonest in the occipital region, where it escapes through a cleft in the bone between the foramen magnum and the occipital protuberance (Fig. 197). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • Almost elephantine with its twin probosci and large, intelligent eyes, it alternated between curling the forward lobes into tight horn-like protuberances or dropping them down to shovel plankton into its cavernous maw.
  • A ‘faucet and sink’ arrangement occurs in this species and the nectary is represented by a small protuberance on the ventral surface of the column.
  • We could see it then, a slight protuberance and the growth rings not quite matching. HIGH STAND
  • The neurosurgeon reduces the occipital protuberance by securing the central sagittal strip to the occipital bones using nonabsorbable sutures or 28-g surgical steel wire.
  • I don't care if it's him blasting "load after sticky load" from his "throbbing manhood" or her "twizzling goop" from her shemale "protuberance;" hot sex scenes need a beginning, a middle, and a goddamn happy ending. Jeff Klima: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Love Scenes
  • The interior of the protuberance, which is the fruiting part of the fungus, contains numerous black, flask-like structures whose tips reached the surface. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913
  • Birds were mist-netted or caught in seed-baited traps and sexed by examination of the cloacal protuberance.
  • It has very few bumps or protuberances, and the surface has as mirror-like a sheen as you can get from white plastic.
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