-
making contact between the teeth.
Protrusion and
retrusion are
sometimes used to
describe the
anterior (
protrusion) and
posterior (retrusion) movement...
- A disc
protrusion is a
medical condition that can
occur in some vertebrates,
including humans, in
which the
outermost layers of the
anulus fibrosus of...
- The Adam's
apple is the
protrusion in the neck
formed by the
angle of the
thyroid cartilage surrounding the larynx,
typically visible in men, less frequently...
-
Cellular extensions also
known as
cytoplasmic protrusions and
cytoplasmic processes are
those structures that
project from
different cells, in the body...
-
feeding mechanisms, such as
filter feeding, ram feeding,
suction feeding,
protrusion, and
pivot feeding. Most
underwater predators combine more than one of...
- A
trunnion (from Old
French trognon 'trunk') is a
cylindrical protrusion used as a
mounting or
pivoting point.
First ****ociated with cannons, they are...
- In medicine, a bleb is a blister-like
protrusion (often hemispherical) or
vesicle filled with
serous fluid.
Blebs can form in a
number of
tissues by different...
-
prolongation that
protrudes from an organism's body such as an arm or a leg.
Protrusions from single-celled
bacteria and
archaea are
known as cell-surface appendages...
-
feeding mechanisms.
Especially advanced are the
linkage mechanisms of jaw
protrusion. For
suction feeding a
system of
linked four-bar
linkages is responsible...
-
eyestalk (sometimes
spelled eye
stalk and also
known as an ommatop****) is a
protrusion that
extends an eye away from the body,
giving the eye a
better field...
