Sentence examples for protuberance from inspiring English sources

Instead, in 1939 the two researchers exiled themselves to Plymouth, where the Marine Biological Association has a laboratory, and turned to the nerve cells of squid a species that has what are known as giant axons.The axon is the long protuberance from a nerve cell that connects it to the next cell in the circuit.

London's, 35 feet tall, was called "Maman".With the art world in awe of her from 1982 onwards, when a New York retrospective drew her, very late in life, to popular attention, she got tired of explaining this or that protuberance in her landscapes of mounds and udders.

Males have a large caruncle, or fleshy protuberance, on the forehead and top of the beak, and turkeylike neck wattles.

In humans the tibia forms the lower half of the knee joint above and the inner protuberance of the ankle below.

The more elaborate "crown" (kammuri) has a flat base, a protuberance rising forward from the back of the head, and a flat band curving down to the rear.

The other species of rhinoceroses have a second horn that stands on a protuberance of the bones (frontals) between the eyes.

And the scoops swivel out of the way if they encounter anything solid, so the dredge does not destroy such protuberances.

The holes are then filled with nerve-growth factor before the next layer is printed, so that when the main body of the nerve cell is sprayed into place it rapidly grows axonal and dendritic protuberances to the right destinations.Knowing how to print nerve cells, is, in fact, the key to the whole thing.

Unlike most other types of cell, which are small, the protuberances from a nerve cell, known as axons and dendrites, may stretch from the animal's spinal cord to the tips of its toes.

Though the attraction between a hair and a surface is tiny, geckos have zillions of such hairs, and the sum of the interactions is enough to hold a lizard to the ceiling.Dr Geim and his colleagues used electron-beam lithography (a technique employed in the manufacture of computer chips) to fabricate small pieces of plastic tape that had hairlike protuberances on their surfaces.

And protuberances are kept to a minimum.