protrusion

Uninfected cells grew in lawns resembling lush grasslands, where the tufts of waving fronds are actually hairlike protrusions called cilia, which grow from the tops of airway-lining cells, the team confirmed.

The minimal protrusion came, in part, because the body is also efficiently designed.

She’d come sideways off the wall and hit her head on a protrusion in the rock, which gouged a quarter-size hole into the left side of her forehead.

Cells that line the respiratory tract and their hairlike protrusions called cilia help clear airways of inhaled particles and pathogens.

He pulls aside another prisoner with a protrusion on his head, and implies the man was injured by the guards.

The mantle cavity is also closed with the exception of a small hole left for the protrusion of the small foot.

The hole in the shell serves for the protrusion of a pedicel or foot by means of which the animal is enabled to attach itself.

No doubt the protrusion of the cirri effectively aids the act of opening.

Perhaps I have blundered about Primula; but certainly not about mere protrusion of pollen-tubes.

The complication which makes the accident so unfortunate for the patient is the protrusion of the intestines.