| bulge | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling | something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" |
| ~ frontal eminence | either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit. |
| ~ occipital protuberance | prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone. |
| ~ belly | a part that bulges deeply.; "the belly of a sail" |
| ~ caput | a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure.; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula" |
| ~ mogul | a bump on a ski slope. |
| ~ nub, nubble | a small lump or protuberance. |
| ~ snag | a sharp protuberance. |
| ~ wart | any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals). |
| ~ projection | any solid convex shape that juts out from something. |
| v. (change) | 2. bulge, pouch, protrude | swell or protrude outwards.; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" |
| ~ change form, change shape, deform | assume a different shape or form. |
| ~ bulk | stick out or up.; "The parcel bulked in the sack" |
| v. (stative) | 3. bag, bulge | bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge. |
| ~ jut, jut out, protrude, stick out, project | extend out or project in space.; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" |
| ~ protuberate | form a rounded prominence.; "The starved child's belly protuberated" |
| v. (motion) | 4. bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude, start | bulge outward.; "His eyes popped" |
| ~ change form, change shape, deform | assume a different shape or form. |
| v. (change) | 5. bulge, bulk | cause to bulge or swell outwards. |
| ~ swell | cause to become swollen.; "The water swells the wood" |
| ~ bulge, pouch, protrude | swell or protrude outwards.; "His stomach bulged after the huge meal" |
| vesicle | | |
| n. (body) | 1. cyst, vesicle | a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid). |
| ~ dacryocyst, lacrimal sac, tear sac | either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands. |
| ~ dictyosome, golgi apparatus, golgi body, golgi complex | a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions). |
| ~ sac | a structure resembling a bag in an animal. |
| ~ bleb, bulla, blister | (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid. |
| ~ follicle | any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity. |
| ~ liposome | an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector. |
Recent comments
3 weeks 5 days ago
5 weeks 1 day ago
20 weeks 3 days ago
20 weeks 3 days ago
20 weeks 3 days ago
21 weeks 1 day ago
25 weeks 2 days ago
26 weeks 1 day ago
27 weeks 8 hours ago
27 weeks 17 hours ago