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excrescence

noun

[L. excrescens, from excresco; ex and cresco, to grow.]

In surgery, a preternatural protuberance growing on any part of the body, as a wart or a tubercle; a superfluous part.

excrescence

Any preternatural enlargement of a plant, like a wart or tumor; or something growing out from a plant.

excrescence

A preternatural production.