Crossword clues for protrusion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protrusion \Pro*tru"sion\, n.
The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.
The state of being protruded, or thrust forward.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from French protrusion, noun of action from past participle stem of Latin protrudere "to push out" (see protrude), or from a similar formation in English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act of protrude. 2 (context uncountable English) The state of being protruded. 3 (context countable English) Anything that protrudes.
WordNet
n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, extrusion, excrescence]
the act of projecting out from something [syn: projection, jut, jutting]
Usage examples of "protrusion".
But when this period arrives and the menstrual discharge takes place into the vagina, the female will suffer from the retention and accumulation of this secretion, and ultimately a tumor or a protrusion of the membrane which closes the vagina will occur, giving rise to severe pain and other serious symptoms.
Massie cites an instance of gunshot wound of the right hypochondrium, with penetration and protrusion of the liver.
Exophthalmia in animals born of parents in which an injury to the restiform body had produced that protrusion of the eyeball.
Atop the head, at the base of several long, supple spines, was a raised protrusion crowned with rows of scaleless flesh that occasionally fluttered as she exhaled.
There were some 40 wood and stone carvings, each resembling a spikey undersea creature, though she could find no detailing on them except for the protrusions.
South Africa where they grow naturally profuse, blue-tongued exotic orange protrusions from the deep purple-green bill, silently mating there among the native white pear, the red ivory, black stinkwood, and umzimbiti.
She sank slowly to her knees and began to perform the ritual gestures of the Theurgic cult: hands palm down to either side, slowly up till the back of the hand touched the ears, and the simultaneous protrusion of the tongue.
These were old markings though, and my attention returned to the fresh wound: I thought I noticed something embedded there, a slight, blackish protrusion under the slick coat of discharging blood.
His browridge had become much more pronounced, extending like a bony protrusion out over his eye sockets.
The protrusions of natural rocks like Camelback Mountain and Squaw Peak to the north or South Mountain to the south turned the whole valley into a Zen garden maintained by giants.
If there is a protrusion of brain-substance itself, a condition known as hernia cerebri results.
Examples of exophthalmos, or protrusion of the eye from the orbit from bizarre causes, are of particular interest.
The hills round about Whyffler Hall traded their coats of glistening white for verdant mantles of bright-green grass with splashes of bold colors where early-blooming flowerlets burst out among the protrusions of weathered rock.
But under the bristle, Kirk and the other crewmen could see that the actual bodies were composed of the same furry ropellke extensions, also bunching up tightly near the base and spreading out into footlike protrusions.
See the two little legs, the U shape between the curvature into this headlike protrusion?