Protuberance (disambiguation)

Protuberance (in late Latin protuberare "to swell") stands for

• a flow of matter at the edge of the sun, see protuberance
• a bulging thickening or bump-like protrusion on bone
• a large increase in the skull plates in chickens in poultry farming
• a slight bulge on special milling devices for gear manufacturing, the effect of which facilitates subsequent scraping or grinding work on the tooth base

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.