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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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..
Strophulus :: Strophiole (n.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) A small fleshy prominence or excrescence; especially the small, reddish body, the caruncula lacrymalis, in the inner angle of the eye..
Keloid :: Keloid (a.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin..
Caruncula :: Caruncula (n.) An excrescence or appendage surrounding or near the hilum of a seed.
Wenny :: Wenny (a.) Having the nature of a wen; resembling a wen; as, a wennish excrescence..
Superfamily :: Superexcrescence (n.) Something growing superfluously.
Chit :: Chit (n.) An excrescence on the body, as a wart..
Warty :: Warty (a.) Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence..
Glomuliferous :: Glomuliferous (a.) Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.
Rat-tail :: Rat-tail (n.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.
Wart :: Wart (n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants..
Fungosity :: Fungosity (n.) The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.
Excrement :: Excrement (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.
Catheretic :: Catheretic (n.) A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences.
Excrescency :: Excrescency (n.) Excrescence.
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..
Splint :: Splint (v. t.) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence..
Epithema :: Epithema (n.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
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