What's the difference between bulge and bulgy?

Bulge


Definition:

  • (n.) The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
  • (n.) A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
  • (n.) The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
  • (v. i.) To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
  • (v. i.) To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Where the PGCs bulge out into the coelomic cavity, they stretch the somatic cell covering to a thin, cytoplasmic layer.
  • (2) On admission she was found to be a well-nourished infant with a head circumference of 56 cm, bulging anterior fontanelle and mental retardation.
  • (3) An unusual appearance of echoes behind the aorta bulging into the left atrium in diastole on both the M-mode and cross-sectional echo suggested this diagnosis prior to cardiac catheterization.
  • (4) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
  • (5) Bulge formation, due to the presumed action of an autolysin(s), may be an initial step in the septation sequence when the mucopeptide is modified to allow construction of the septum.
  • (6) Regional myocardial wall function was improved in the central and peripheral ischemic region as demonstrated by a significantly reduced systolic bulging.
  • (7) Some birds were subjected to unilateral eyelid-suture, a protocol which usually induces axial lengthening and corneal bulging.
  • (8) I look out at this brilliant audience here today, bulging with ideas, and I ask you possibly to solve it.
  • (9) The chief characteristics of stage 18 (approximately 44 postovulatory days) are rapidly growing basal nuclei; appearance of the extraventricular bulge of the cerebellum (flocculus), of the superior cerebellar peduncle, and of follicles in the epiphysis cerebri; and the presence of vomeronasal organ and ganglion, of the bucconasal membrane, and of isolated semicircular ducts.
  • (10) In 10 dogs with acute posterior wall ischemia the B-C excursion (aneurysmal bulging) increased (P less than 0.01), but the mean systolic posterior wall velocity and posterior wall excursion decreased (P less than 0.01).
  • (11) If there is no evidence of a canine bulge, and the tooth appears to be tipped medially in the frontal radiograph, with the crown medial to the lateral border of the nasal cavity, a future impaction of the maxillary canine is a significant possibility.
  • (12) In a 50-year-old patient with complex ventricular arrhythmia (monotopic ventricular extrasystoles in bigeminy and triplet form), coronary angiography with ventriculography revealed an aneurysm of about 2-3 cm diameter that bulged visibly into the right ventricle during the systole.
  • (13) Fabregas hammers it down the middle, the ball sailing slightly to the left before bulging the net.
  • (14) Intravenous ISO injection now induced regional dysfunction in the LCX-dependent segment with the occurrence of systolic bulging.
  • (15) The results indicate that tat interacts with both the bulge and loop regions of TAR.
  • (16) A 51-year-old female patient, admitted with a chief complaint of dizziness, had bulging of the occipital area, which had started insidiously.
  • (17) The original "root area" widens with the broadening of the back and can still be demonstrated as an homogeneous "root area" of the "intestinal bulge", after the typical adult situs has developed.
  • (18) Five of the hairpins have single-base bulges at different positions.
  • (19) They topped a list of eight "triggers" that could rupture aneurysms – bulges in the walls of blood vessels – in the brain.
  • (20) Removal of d-alanine from a growing population of cells resulted in cell bulging 25% of the cell length from one cell pole, followed by cell lysis.

Bulgy


Definition:

  • (a.) Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The white disc-like structure in 11 cases was composed of an anterior, stiff, bulgy, biconvex structure combined with a posterior flattened portion that grossly was incorrectly determined to be part of the disc, but that was identified histologically as a posterior disc attachment that had undergone adaptive change characterized by connective tissue hyalinization.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 1.51pm GMT 1.47pm GMT Here is what one of our men on the ground have to say: Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) Something about cup finals I always slightly favour the club with the bulgy eyes barking mad manager March 2, 2014 1.41pm GMT This.
  • (3) Retraction into spherical shapes would maximize volume-holding for a given surface area, however they are quantitatively more bulgy than cells rounded by trypsinization.
  • (4) They search high and low – through a forest, a swamp, in brambly bushes and up a mountain, for “a long legged, bulgy nosed, branchy antlered moose”.

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