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• n  something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
• n  the act of projecting out from something

• Bishop Cannon's insistent protrusion into politics has stimulated a countermovement, an "anti-politics" wing in the church; to "curb the activity of ministers of the gospel in .
• Reason: The protrusion consists of fat and connective tissue, does not affect leverage.
• The White collection includes a superb variety of masks, from cumbrous affairs that need an athlete to lift them to a wooden Ogoni mask from Nigeria, with its curving protrusion .

• bulge
• bump
• hump
• swelling
• gibbosity
• gibbousness
• jut
• prominence
• protuberance
• extrusion
• excrescence
• projection
• jutting

News & Articles

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• Actor aids injured Defiance man
  A Defiance man’s cross-country Canadian tour almost turned tragic Thursday when he fell walking on a Toronto sidewalk and a protrusion sticking out of the construction scaffolding slit his throat. Rescue came from an unlikely source: Actor John Malkovich.
  June 10, 2013 - The Toledo Blade

Quotes

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• Andy LaRoche in Long Beach Press-Telegram
  I'm not going to need surgery because it's such a mild protrusion,LaRoche said. "With the exercises, it could actually end up healing itself.
• Trecia Smith in Jamaica Observer
  It showed a central protrusion of my disc, as well as two lateral protrusions that are compromising the intervertebal foramina and the nerves coming out,the England-based Smith, who has a Master's degree in Physiotherapy from Pittsburg...
• Ed Wade in Houston Chronicle
  He also had an old, small disc protrusion unrelated to the problem he's having right now,general manager Ed Wade said.