protrusion

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• She’d come sideways off the wall and hit her head on a protrusion in the rock, which gouged a quarter-size hole into the left side of her forehead.

• Cells that line the respiratory tract and their hairlike protrusions called cilia help clear airways of inhaled particles and pathogens.

• He pulls aside another prisoner with a protrusion on his head, and implies the man was injured by the guards.

• The mantle cavity is also closed with the exception of a small hole left for the protrusion of the small foot.

• The hole in the shell serves for the protrusion of a pedicel or foot by means of which the animal is enabled to attach itself.

• No doubt the protrusion of the cirri effectively aids the act of opening.

• Perhaps I have blundered about Primula; but certainly not about mere protrusion of pollen-tubes.

• The complication which makes the accident so unfortunate for the patient is the protrusion of the intestines.