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

Horn :: Horn (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout..

Pomiferous :: Pomiferous (a.) Bearing fruits, or excrescences, more or less resembling an apple..

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..

Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye..

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..

Tubercular :: Tubercular (a.) Like a tubercle; as, a tubercular excrescence..

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

Bouillon :: Bouillon (n.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Wart :: Wart (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants..

Spongy :: Spongy (a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones..

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

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