(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.
Protrusion
Definition:
(n.) The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.
(n.) The state of being protruded, or thrust forward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
(2) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(3) Clinical findings and operative results of 212 operated cases of disc protrusion are analyzed in this paper.
(4) However, we have observed cracks on the Dacron fibers, fiber fracture, fiber protrusion, and poor attachment to the diaphragm, which can cause potentially disastrous complications.
(5) Anterior lenticonus is a rare condition, in which there is a conical or spherical protrusion of the anterior surface into the anterior chamber.
(6) The phenomenology of various protrusions, including fimbria, is described, and the effect of cultivation conditions (continuous culture, periodic culture) and growth phases on their emergence was elucidated.
(7) The uveal protrusion was replaced and a deep corneoscleral block was removed in front of the scleral spur in three cases, and electrocoagulation of the anterior edges of the trabeculectomy fistula was done in other three cases.
(8) These mitochondria had a highly electron dense matrix and protrusions or blebs of mitochondrial outer membrane were frequently observed.
(9) When the myoepithelial cells contract they force the axial protrusion forward and transform the papilla into a hyperboloidal configuration.
(10) With regard to the pathogenesis of syringomyelia, we concluded that in cases associated with Chiari II malformation, vermian protrusion and direct continuity between the fourth ventricle and the syrinx were essential.
(11) Some CTLs contacted infected cells via numerous interdigitating processes; others were observed thrusting finger-like protrusions deep into the target cell; some were seen with their plasma membranes lying closely opposed to that of the infected cell.
(12) (d) It is shown that a high value of the cell-to-substrate gap may be accounted for by the presence of cell surface protrusions of a few micrometer length, in accordance with electron microscope observations performed on the same cell population.
(13) For protrusive records there was no significant difference between examiners, but for lateral records a significant difference in examiner registration was found.
(14) It is suggested that the protrusion of membrane proteins into the aqueous phase, the consequent expression of cell surface charge, and the temperature-dependent modulation of the latter may be related to the lateral mosaicism of membrane lipids and reflect the state of membrane fluidity.
(15) The primary cyst wall of the sarcocysts in these granulomas consisted of hair-like protrusions that featured many unusual electron-dense bodies.
(16) In some cases, the entire cell surface was covered by these protrusions.
(17) A 'small' CG-free area of the cortex, with prominent cytoplasmic protrusions, appeared twice during the progression of meiosis.
(18) However, only one out of the patients with calcification is restricted in his movements, and only 3 out of the patients with protrusion do complain of symptoms.
(19) The morphology of human leukocytes, the biochemistry of actin polymerization, and the theory of continuum mechanics are used to model the pseudopod protrusion process of leukocytes.
(20) On biopsy immediately after worm removal, samples of the main pulmonary arteries showed severe intimal proliferations with villous or papillary protrusion into the lumen.