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prominences

n. (plural of prominence English)

Usage examples of "prominences".

They are little vascular prominences of the mucous membrane, arising from the interior surface of the small intestine.

Arranged in oblique lines, as the prominences on the back of the tongue.

The space bounded by the end of the spine, sexual organs and the bony prominences on which one sits.

She bent to peer at the chart, which showed a long archipelago of narrow, jagged prominences, crisscrossed by perpendicular coordinate lines.