VERMIFORM PROCESS Synonyms
There are 3 hypernyms of the phrase vermiform process. (close relations)
Definition of VERMIFORM PROCESS
process
Best Alternative Words for VERMIFORM PROCESS
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appendage | nounn | |||||||
noun • an external body part that projects from the body • a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant • a part that is joined to something larger | ||||||||
extension | nounn | |||||||
noun • a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt • act of expanding in scope; making more widely available • the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions • an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students • act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb • a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename • the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to • the ability to raise the working leg high in the air • amount or degree or range to which something extends • an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line • an addition to the length of something • an addition that extends a main building | ||||||||
projection | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations • the projection of an image from a film onto a screen • a planned undertaking • any structure that branches out from a central support • any solid convex shape that juts out from something • (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else • the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality • the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction • the act of projecting out from something • the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | ||||||||
protuberance | nounn | |||||||
noun • something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings • the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | ||||||||
appendix | nounn | |||||||
noun • supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book • a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch | ||||||||
cecal appendage | nounn | |||||||
noun • a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch | ||||||||
vermiform appendix | nounn | |||||||
noun • a vestigial process that extends from the lower end of the cecum and that resembles a small pouch |