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bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence

 

something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form

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kinds of:

  • frontal eminence — either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit
  • occipital protuberance — prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone
  • belly — a part that bulges deeply
  • caput — a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure
  • nub — a small lump or protuberance
  • wart — any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

is a kind of:

  • projection — any solid convex shape that juts out from something

 
 
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