Definition of excrescence

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Excrescence (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant..

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Keloid :: Keloid (a.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin..
Wart :: Wart (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants..
Wenny :: Wenny (a.) Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence..
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..
Excrescency :: Excrescency (n.) Excrescence.
Burl :: Burl (n.) An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences..
Excrescential :: Excrescential (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence..
Excrescence :: Excrescence (n.) An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant..
Bouillon :: Bouillon (n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.
Carnosity :: Carnosity (n.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth.
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..
Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.
Strophulus :: Strophiole (n.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
Outgrowth :: Outgrowth (n.) That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence..
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..
Exostosis :: Exostosis (n.) Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.
Tubercular :: Tubercular (a.) Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence..
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..
Epithema :: Epithema (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
Excrement :: Excrement (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.
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