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The act of protruding.
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The state of being protruded.
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Anything that protrudes.
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Examples of protrusion in a Sentence
When the edges of the mantle ventral to the inhalant orifice are united, an anterior aperture is left for the protrusion of the foot, and thus there are three pallial apertures altogether, and species in this condition are called " Tripora."
In the Southern Uplands, owing to the greater softness and uniformity of texture of the rocks, rock-tarns are comparatively infrequent, except in Galloway, where the protrusion of granite and its associated metamorphism have reproduced Highland conditions of rock-structure.
Mantle with two posterior appendages; ctenidium large and capable of protrusion from pallial cavity.
The mechanism of protrusion in the Cyclostomata is a subject which requires further examination.
Thus in the Phylactolaemata the contraction of the muscular body-wall exerts a pressure on the fluid of the body-cavity and is the cause of the protrusion of the polypide.
Thus among the tongue movements evoked by stigmatic stimulation of the cortex undeviated protrusion or retraction of the organ is not found.
Pollination having been effected, and the pollen-grain having reached the stigma in angio sperms or the summit of the nucellus in mnos erms P gY P it is detained there, and the viscid secretion from the glands of the stigma in the former case, or from the nucellus in the latter, induce the protrusion of the intine as a pollen-tube through the pores of the grain.
Joseph could see the white protrusion of the dead man's face.
An alternative method to create parts or features that have rotational symmetry is to form a protrusion by revolving rather than extruding.
Similarly to create a protrusion extending to both sides from the sketcher plane the following short cut can be used.
A few more meters round a rocky protrusion and - I had found the fourth entrance.
At the junction of the femoral neck and the femoral shaft is a large bony protrusion called the greater trochanter.
Surgery improved tongue protrusion and elevation by an average of 9 and 13 mm respectively.
A baby bump refers to the protrusion of a woman's belly when she is pregnant.
Simply unscrew the antenna, place the loop around the metal protrusion, and screw the antenna back in.
Headgear and Herbst appliances can significantly reduce protrusion of the four top incisors and enable the growing lower jaw to catch up with the upper jaw, eliminating swallowing problems.
Additionally the jaw can be tested for motion resistance, opening, protrusion, and side-to-side mobility.
The examiner looks for tongue protrusion and/or abnormal movements.
A hernia is the protrusion of an organ through the structure or muscle that usually contains it.
These hernias are usually small and have no symptoms other than a small protrusion near the base of the umbilical cord.
Another congenital brain defect, encephalocele, is a protrusion of part of the brain through a defect in the skull.
The protective layer over the brain, the meninges, grows to cover the protrusion, as does skin in some cases.
Incomplete closure causes protrusion of the spinal cord and meninges, called meningomyelocele.
A hernia is a breakage in your abdominal muscles that then creates a protrusion.
Both men and women might opt to wear a hernia support girdle to hide the offending protrusion and alleviate any discomfort.
Thus a point A will, when excited soon subsequent to point B, which latter yields protrusion of lips, itself yield lip-protrusion, whereas if excited after C, which yields lip-retraction, it will itself yield lip-retraction.
The tusks appear externally to the mouth, the form of the upper lip being modified to allow of their protrusion, but are much less developed in females than in males.
In the Gymnolaemata protrusion is effected by the contraction of the parietal muscles, which pass freely across the body-cavity from one part of the body-wall to another.