Protrusion

Word PROTRUSION
Character 10
Hyphenation pro tru sion
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Protrusion"

What do we mean by protrusion?

The act of protruding. noun

The state of being protruded. noun

Something that protrudes. noun

The act of protruding or thrusting forth, or the state of being protruded. noun

That which stands out beyond something adjacent; that which protrudes or projects. noun

The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit. noun

The state of being protruded, or thrust forward. noun

The act of protruding. noun

The state of being protruded. noun

Anything that protrudes. noun

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings noun

The act of projecting out from something noun

The act of protruding.

The state of being protruded.

Anything that protrudes.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Protrusion

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The word "protrusion" in example sentences

Just northeast of it is another, larger protrusion, which is Mount Eagle. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The protrusion was the size of a man's head, and could not be replaced. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

But the omission of all mention both of 'protrusion' and of the 'dog days' makes the Latin almost without meaning. ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

A "protrusion" is not the same thing as a herniated disc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“The piece he stepped on, from an old malt liquor bottle, was as jagged as the French Alps, the round base of the bottle forming a perfect support for the protrusion ... it went into his heel cleanly, cutting firmly into the hard pad, opening a wound that sent him falling sideways.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

She saw his thin back, the protrusion of each vertebra, and she felt heartened. ❋ Savannah Schroll Guz (2011)

Stream-of-consciousness reactions to, judgments of, and questionable puns and/or pop culture references in relation to anything that appears onscreen, including but not limited to celebrities' clothing, hair/makeup, obscene levels of tooth-whitening and/or clavicle protrusion see above paragraph, and general demeanor ❋ Una LaMarche (2011)

There is a splendid passage where he explains Worm's treasured unicorn horns as the spikes of narwhals – Worm has already worked out what a monster a horse would be which could support such a protrusion. ❋ Unknown (2011)

These were the rubrics I chose for him: 1. Eye, inflammation 2. Eye, inflammation, acute 3. Generals, aggravated on the right side 4. Generals, sudden onset 5. Eye, lachrymation 6. Eye, protrusion with red discoloration. ❋ Judith Acosta (2011)

The next time I pressed her against me, there would be a slight protrusion, or a gap, where we didn't fit together just as smoothly as before. ❋ Mandy Taggart (2011)

There, in the middle of my forehead, was a tiny protrusion, probably about a half inch long. ❋ Erin Zulkoski (2011)

The most common and noticeable symptom is a protrusion in the groin or abdominal area. ❋ M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein (2011)

When he'd crept up behind her in bed, pressing an unexpected erection against her tailbone, he'd put his hand on her hip and—expecting suppleness to the flesh beneath his palm, was at once surprised and terrified of the bony protrusion he encountered instead. ❋ Ann Wahlman (2011)

Perhaps the most interesting area of the park is known as the Olympic Hill, an obviously unnatural protrusion from the grounds that was actually constructed with the debris from Allied bombings of the city during World War II. ❋ Michael Yarbrough (2011)

“This thing is getting heavier and heavier,” she said, looking down at the swollen protrusion beneath her filthy T-shirt. ❋ Savannah Schroll Guz (2011)

He leaned his weight against the handle, cupping the end of it in his hand—feeling the hardness of it bite into his palm like the bony protrusion of Kathy's hip. ❋ Ann Wahlman (2011)

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