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Excrescency :: Excrescency (n.) Excrescence.

Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy..

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..

Glomuliferous :: Glomuliferous (a.) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.

Keloid :: Keloid (a.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin..

Muricated :: Muricated (a.) Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences..

Excrement :: Excrement (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.

Superfamily :: Superexcrescence (n.) Something growing superfluously.

Sibbens :: Sibbens (n.) A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch..

Fungosity :: Fungosity (n.) The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.

Burl :: Burl (n.) An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences..

Chit :: Chit (n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart..

Exostosis :: Exostosis (n.) Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.

Gall :: Gall (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut..

Grease :: Grease (n.) An inflammation of a horse's heels, suspending the ordinary greasy secretion of the part, and producing dryness and scurfiness, followed by cracks, ulceration, and fungous excrescences..

Outgrowth :: Outgrowth (n.) That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence..

Epithema :: Epithema (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.

Carnosity :: Carnosity (n.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth.

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