How To Use Protuberance In A Sentence
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Another protuberance outlined with two vertical incisions serves as a nose, and a horizontal slash suggests a mouth.
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_ -- 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.
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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.
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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.
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We could see it then, a slight protuberance and the growth rings not quite matching.
HIGH STAND
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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.
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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
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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
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Birds were mist-netted or caught in seed-baited traps and sexed by examination of the cloacal protuberance.
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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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In his panic to swat it, he forgot the delicacy of this fleshy protuberance.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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The protoplasm in one of these protuberances arranges itself into a round mass -- the oosphere or female cell.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
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And the amount the tip is moved reveals the height of the protuberance, even if it is only a single atom high.
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Shallow lobulation is observed and short thin spinule, deep lobulation or spiculate protuberance is not observed in the tumour edge.
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The nucleus of the female parasite moves to the surface where a small protuberance is formed and into this, penetrates the microgamete forming a zygote.
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She put a sand-coated hand to her head and pressed the fleshy protuberance on her temple.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Your jaw bone ascends toward the back (almost at a right angle to the horizontal line of the teeth), ending in a rounded protuberance (the condyloid process), which fits into a shallow groove in your temporal bone on the lower part of your skull.
Screaming Mummies!
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If the plant has been infected you will see dark protuberances along the stems.
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[35] "The shalm, or shawm, was a wind instrument, like a pipe, with a swelling protuberance in the middle.
Rookwood
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Some of their protuberances project close to a metre above what can be vaguely discerned as the original road surface.
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The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped.
The Best American Poetry 2010
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Another method: - There grows upon the bleeding condyloma, a protuberance like the fruit of the mulberry, and if the condyloma be far without, an envelope of flesh is adherent to it.
On Hemorrhoids
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Fragile protuberances like zygomatic processes and ascending rami were found to be broken, but most bones were still intact.
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It's that scanner that peeks under your clothing, creating a ghostly but realistic image of your naked body, accurate down to every curve, knurl, protuberance, carbuncle, wen, bleb, wart and wattle and garfunkel.
Airport frisk assessment: Gene gets rubbed the wrong way
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The second is metaphorical: "a protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers.
Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W.: Love Your Muffin Top
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During a class on operant conditioning, I asked whether anyone had placed a rat trained to press a bar for food into a naturalistic setting to see if it would get on its hind legs to press twigs or similar protuberances.
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The tree is grand and huge, its girth perhaps five metres, and the knotted protuberances of the base cover a huge area.
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Another feature of this patent was the use of protuberances, which interlocked into holes in the joint plates to keep an extended rule straight when open.
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The protuberances remain small during initiation of the first sepals, and they disappear completely in the course of floral development.
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Others suggest that protuberances from the epidermis increased photosynthetic surface area on plants that were now growing taller, with thicker stems and more biomass to support.
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And a few other odds and ends that aren’t mentioned much: It shouldn’t have any unnecessary protuberances or baroqueness.
Shermer and Dembski in Bridgewater - The Panda's Thumb
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the protuberance of his belly
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Nor did they first pump out all the hydraulic oils and hazardous chemicals, nor cut away potentially dangerous protuberances.
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The anterior process of the calcaneus is a saddle-shaped bony protuberance that articulates with the cuboid.
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They grow from pedicles that form at puberty and which, in time, become permanent protuberances from where antlers bud and are cast seasonally.
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It had not horns in the sense of a deer or a cow but it had bony protuberances above the eyes.
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The marine boxfishes (Teleostei: Ostraciidae) are mostly shallow-water, tropical reef-dwelling fishes that have 2/3-3/4 of their bodies encased in rigid bony carapaces, which arc keeled with various protuberances.
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Some of their protuberances project close to a metre above what can be vaguely discerned as the original road surface.
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Squint a little, squeeze the eyes tight, and one could almost see those chitonous barbs and protuberances coming together to form, if not an actual crown, at least an approximation of a comparable configuration.
A Triumph of Souls
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Its flatness suggests two-dimensionality while the incurvations, slight protuberances and incisions suggest three-dimensionality.
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He's quite round in the shoulders; and yet so inconsistent are women that she calls a protuberance that resembles the letter C the line of beauty.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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Still in the knot garden, on the lavender laced quatrefoil center this hard working pollen jockey seems to have a pointy protuberance on his hind end.
Bee Speed « Fairegarden
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Or that the little protuberances in the candle-snuff thicken the air and make it cloudy; or the hookedness of the nails is the cause and not an accident consequential to an ulcer.
Symposiacs
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Unwrapping some white mosquito-netting, she presented to view a large, bulbous object encircled with protuberances, excrescenced with golden knobbiness -- this object, strangely sticky, smelled something like bananas; it was the Everything, completed and unveiled.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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If the plant has been infected you will see dark protuberances along the stems.
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In his large-scale drawings, body organs morph into metallic configurations with colorful, yet indistinct protuberances.
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On the body of the mandible is a median ridge, indicating the position of the symphysis; this ridge divides below to enclose the mental protuberance, the lateral angles of which constitute the mental tubercles.
II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull
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On the inner side of this is a smaller protuberance, the medial epicondyle of the humerus - the bone of the upper arm.
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The placoderms and chondrichthyans both show at least some capsular protuberance of the braincase, but the braincase is a single, undivided mass, whether or not ossified.
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Beetles are usually identified by observing differences in the male's genitalia, which sport all sorts of uncomfortable-looking protuberances.
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If a line be drawn from the point at which the brow curves in towards the root of the nose, and which is called the 'glabella' ( 'a') (Figure 22), to the occipital protuberance ( 'b'), and the distance to the highest point of the arch of the skull be measured perpendicularly from this line, it will be found to be 4.75 inches.
Lectures and Essays
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Interrill flow, also known as sheet flow, sheet wash, or slope wash, generally appears as a thin layer of water with threads of deeper, faster flow diverging and converging around surface protuberances, rocks, and vegetation.
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If a line joining the glabella and the occipital protuberance
Essays
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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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The radicle of the dodder fixes itself in the earth, and the little stem rises as in other dicotyledons; but soon (for the plantlet could not live long thus) this stem, which is as slender as a thread, seeks support upon some neighboring plant, and produces upon its surfaces of contact one or more little protuberances that shortly afterward adhere firmly to the support and take on the appearance and functions of cupping glasses.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884
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The coyote shambles, crow-hops, keeps his head low, and without fur, his now visible pizzle is a sad red protuberance, his hind legs the backward image of a bandy-legged grandfather, stripped.
The Best American Poetry 2010
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If a line be drawn from the point at which the brow curves in towards the root of the nose, and which is called the 'glabella' ( 'a') (Fig. 23), to the occipital protuberance ( 'b'), and the distance to the highest point of the arch of the skull be measured perpendicularly from this line, it will be found to be 4.75 inches.
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
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The cell containing the infection thread, or the neighbouring cell, has green-stained protuberances on its periclinal walls.
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One could lean over from one of those little teensy protuberances of rock, ice, gravel and snow and stare straight down at infinity.
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And, as mentioned earlier, the ceramics are sexy, with their curves and protuberances and hidden spaces.
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Fragile protuberances like zygomatic processes and ascending rami were found to be broken, but most bones were still intact.
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Beaked whales, distinguished by the strange, teeth-like protuberances from their lower jaws, have been around virtually unchanged for 30 million years, but are still the least studied large mammal in the world.
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But feeling a kind of protuberance on its head, he blew the feathers apart, and behold! the head of a pin!
Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources
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It's that scanner that peeks under your clothing, creating a ghostly but realistic image of your naked body, accurate down to every curve, knurl, protuberance, carbuncle, wen, bleb, wart and wattle and garfunkel.
Airport frisk assessment: Gene gets rubbed the wrong way
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There you will find a pair of hard protuberances lying flush to its scales.
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L The age of the dag is known by its horns: the firft year exhibits only a dmrt protuberance, which is covered with a hairy ftin; tk next year the horns are diaight and dngle; the third year producd two antlers, the fourth three, the fifth four j and, when, arrived at the fixth year, the antlers amount to fix or feven on, each fide, bal the number is not always certain,.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States
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The placoderms and chondrichthyans both show at least some capsular protuberance of the braincase, but the braincase is a single, undivided mass, whether or not ossified.
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The skull from the cave of Engis — viewed from the right side. ‘a’ glabella, ‘b’ occipital protuberance, (‘a’ to ‘b’ glabello-occipital line), ‘c’ auditory foramen.
Essays
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I guess a speed bump could be described as a protuberance?
Wake Up and Smell the Trees: Speed Bumps Ahead
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Her hands grasped the tiniest cracks and protuberances and without thought to where they would take her, her feet scrambled for the slightest toehold!
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If you don't take these weedy protuberances for a failed hanging basket display, you might be interested to learn it is designed to mark the passage of time over 12 years, which is how long it takes a good whisky to mature.
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Mexico, how identical in shape and size with the protuberance of Africa just opposite, and how the protuberance of the Venezuelan and Brazilian coast fits in with the in-curve of Africa: so that it is obvious to me -- it is quite _obvious_ -- that they once were one; and one night rushed so far apart; and the wild Atlantic knew that thing, and ran gladly, hasting in between: and how if eye of flesh had been there to see, and ear to hear that cruel thundering, my God, my God -- what horror!
The Purple Cloud
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It is very probable that he seats himself upon the little square block or protuberance which is seen in a corner of the main compartment when the doors are open.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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If the plant has been infected you will see dark protuberances along the stems.
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The species, known by the name of the _Double-headed-snake_, has not two heads, but is equally thick before and behind; and, like some caterpillars, furnished with a kind of protuberance at its tail, which, to a superficial observer, may pass for another head.
Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity
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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.
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Located at the end of the axon is a spherical protuberance called the end bulb e.
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
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The frontal shield and wattles are fleshy protuberances.
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Her sculptures are hybrids of organic and machine forms: cylinders punctuated with round apertures and protuberances.
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William Thomas Andrews was a dwarf seventeen years old, whose head measured in circumference 35 inches; from one external auditory meatus to another, 27 1/4 inches; from the chin over the cranial summit to the suboccipital protuberance, 37 1/2 inches; the distance from the chin to the pubes was 20 inches; and from the pubes to the soles of the feet, 16; he was a monorchid.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The occipital protuberance occupies the extreme posterior end of the skull, when the glabello-occipital line is made horizontal, and so far from any part of the occipital region extending beyond it, this region of the skull slopes obliquely upward and forward, so that the lambdoidal suture is situated well upon the upper surface of the cranium.
Essays
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She has an obvious abdominal protuberance, she is at term, and her time is now.
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Fungations and polypoid protuberances afford safe opportunities for the removal of specimens of tissue.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
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Partial intersegmental division exists on the dorsal surface; the ventral surface has a rounded protuberance on its anterior proximal margin.
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The ridges form irregularly situated protuberances that house hollow spines usually 0.05-0.06 mm wide and up to 0.12 mm long.
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the occipital protuberance was well developed
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Some specimens formed massive attachment structures from the protuberances on the transverse ridges.
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The young of all birds are armed with a small temporary horn or protuberance upon the upper mandible, and they are so placed in the shell that this point is in immediate contact with its inner surface; as soon as they are fully developed and begin to struggle to free themselves, the horny growth "pips" the shell.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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There are usually no holes all the way through but lots of protuberances and concavities.
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Each protuberance bursts, and some of the spermatozoids come in contact with and are absorbed by the oosphere, which then secretes a cell-wall, and after a time germinates.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
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Near the middle of the occipital squama is the external occipital protuberance or inion, and extending lateralward from it on either side is the superior nuchal line, and above this the faintly marked highest nuchal line.
II. Osteology. 5c. The Exterior of the Skull
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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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In the Trumpeter this enters a protuberance that stands out on the dorsal aspect of the sternum, which is wanting in both the other kinds.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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That protuberance which is next the tip holds it on.
Colonial Children
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The protuberance under her fingers felt soft and hard at the same time, an iron fist in a velvet glove.
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A number of works, however, feature clusters of dark, leathery-looking, phallic protuberances and spiky forms that suggest the shapes of devil's horns mentioned in the poems.