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
[ Syn: bulge , bump , hump , swelling , gibbosity , gibbousness , jut , prominence , protuberance , protrusion , extrusion ]
(pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body