protrusion

English

Etymology

From French protrusion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈtɹuːʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

protrusion (countable and uncountable, plural protrusions)

1. (uncountable) The act of protruding.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 235:

     The tortoise, with its characteristic protrusion of the head and neck, was a symbol sacred to Venus. It represented the procreative principle.

2. (uncountable) The state of being protruded.

   A reduction in growth was accompanied by protrusion of the calyx.

3. (countable) Anything that protrudes.

   Synonym: protuberance

Antonyms

• indentation

Derived terms

• microprotrusion
• nanoprotrusion
• protrusional

Related terms

• protuberance

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *trewd- (0 c, 25 e)

Translations

the act of protruding

• Armenian: արտամղում (hy) (artamġum)
• Bulgarian: стърчене n (stǎrčene)
• German: Herausragen n, Heraustreten n, Vorstehen n
• Hungarian: kidudorodás (hu), kidülledés, kinyúlás (hu), kiemelkedés (hu), kitüremkedés (hu), kiszögellés (hu), előboltosulás (hu)
• Russian: выпира́ние (ru) n (vypiránije), выпя́чивание (ru) n (vypjáčivanije)

the state of being protruded

• German: Ausbeulen n, Vorstülpen n, Hervortreiben n, Beulen (de) n, Ausbuchten n, Treiben (de) n, Heraustreiben n
• Hungarian: kiemelkedés (hu), kiszögellés (hu), kidudorodás (hu), kinyúlás (hu), kidülledés, kitüremkedés (hu), előreugrás, kiugrás (hu), kiállás (hu), kitolulás, kitüremlés, előboltosulás (hu), (medical) duzzanat (hu)
• Slovak: vyčnievanie

anything that protrudes

• Arabic: نَاتِئَة (nātiʔa)
• Bulgarian: издаденост (bg) f (izdadenost), изпъкналост (bg) (izpǎknalost)
• Finnish: kohouma (fi), nysty (fi), nystyrä (fi), patti (fi), kumpu (fi), nyppylä (fi)
• French: protubérance (fr) f
• German: Vorsprung (de) m, Schwellung (de) f, Ausbuchung f, Vorwölbung f, Überstand m, Vorstülpung f, Hervortreibung f, Beule (de) f, Knubbel (de) m
• Hungarian: kiugró/​kiálló rész, nyúlvány (hu), dudor (hu)
• Irish: starr f
• Russian: вы́ступ (ru) m (výstup)
• Slovak: výčnelok
• Ukrainian: ви́ступ m (výstup)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} uitsteeksel (nl)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} protuberancia (es) f, ^{(please verify)} protrusión
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} allwthiad (cy) m

See also

• hernia

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Agen)):

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Noun

protrusion f (plural protrusions)

1. (medicine) protrusion

Further reading

• “protrusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012