Meaning of EXTRUSION
| Pronunciation: | | ik'stroozhun
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- [n] squeezing out by applying pressure
- [n] something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
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| | Synonyms: | | bulge, bump, excrescence, expulsion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance |
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| | See Also: | | belly, caput, frontal eminence, nub, occipital protuberance, projection, squeeze, squeezing, wart | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ex*tru"sion\, n.
The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out;
expulsion.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A process where a cell exports large particles or organelles (transports them through its cell membrane to the outside). Requires energy. |
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| | Related Terms: | | bas-relief, bellying, boldness, booting out, bulging, defenestration, detrusion, discharge, effusion, egestion, ejaculation, ejection, ejectment, elimination, emanation, embossment, emergence, emersion, eminence, emission, excrescence, excrescency, excretion, expulsion, extravasation, exudation, flow, flux, gibbosity, gibbousness, high relief, issuance, issue, jettison, kicking downstairs, low relief, obtrusion, ouster, ousting, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, rejection, relief, removal, salience, salient, secretion, surfacing, the boot, the bounce, throwing out, transudation, tuberosity, tuberousness, vent |
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