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protrusion

noun as in bulge

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I watched an older woman grow overcome by the proclamation that a protrusion in her abdomen was being burned out of her body.

From Slate

It causes a sac-like protrusion of brain tissue coming out of an opening in the skull and impacts about 1 in 10,000 babies born in the U.S.

From Salon

The detachment of the protrusion from the cell membrane results in the formation of a vacuole within the neighboring cell.

Cut off just above the ankle all the way to mid-thigh, the omission isn’t found in the classical Greek original or its many Roman copies, where the leg is a prominent protrusion.

The region under study is the Brunt Ice Shelf, which is the floating protrusion of glaciers that have flowed off the continent into the Weddell Sea.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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