Usually means: Outward projection from a surface.
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  1. protuberance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. protuberance: Merriam-Webster
  3. protuberance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. protuberance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. protuberance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. protuberance: Vocabulary.com
  7. protuberance: Wordnik
  8. protuberance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. protuberance: Wiktionary
  10. protuberance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. protuberance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. protuberance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. protuberance: Dictionary.com
  14. protuberance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Protuberance (disambiguation), Protuberance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Protuberance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. protuberance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. protuberance: Rhymezone
  19. Protuberance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. protuberance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. protuberance: FreeDictionary.org
  22. protuberance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. protuberance: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. protuberance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. protuberance: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Protuberance: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. Protuberance: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. protuberance: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (protuberance)

▸ noun:  A bulge, knob, swelling, spine, or anything that protrudes.

Similar:
bulge, hump, bump, jut, extrusion, projection, gibbosity, gibbousness, protrusion, excrescence, more...

Opposite:
depression, concavity, indentation, hollow, cavity

Types:
nose, chin, ear, eyebrow, nipple, breast, penis, buttocks, navel, knee, more...

Phrases:
occipital protuberance, mental protuberance, External occipital protuberance, internal occipital protuberance, tree protuberance, more...

Adjectives:
occipital, external, small, internal, bony, mental, like, slight, large, rounded, fleshy

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Similar:
bulge, hump, bump, jut, extrusion, projection, gibbosity, gibbousness, protrusion, excrescence, more...

Opposite:
depression, concavity, indentation, hollow, cavity

Types:
nose, chin, ear, eyebrow, nipple, breast, penis, buttocks, navel, knee, more...

Phrases:
occipital protuberance, mental protuberance, External occipital protuberance, internal occipital protuberance, tree protuberance, carol protuberance, abnormal protuberance, protuberance erection, more...

Adjectives:
occipital, external, small, internal, bony, mental, like, slight, large, rounded, fleshy

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     burgundy,     maroon, more...



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