Excrescence
[ɪk'skres(ə)ns;eks-] or [ɪk'skrɛsns]
Definition
(noun.) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body.
Editor: Rufus--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Tod
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wart, tumor, morbid protuberance.
Inputed by Barnard
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Superfluity, redundancy, imposthume, tumor
ANT:Eradication, extirpation, excision, levigation, exsection
Typed by Cyril
Definition
n. that which grows out unnaturally from anything else: an outbreak: a wart or tumour: a superfluous part.—ns. Ex′crement an outgrowth; Excres′cency state of being excrescent: excrescence.—adjs. Excres′cent growing out: superfluous; Excrescen′tial.
Typed by Lesley
Examples
- While we stood looking, a wart, or an excrescence of some kind, appeared on the jaw of the Sphynx. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My person, with its human powers and features, seem to me a monstrous excrescence of nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For, it inscrutably appeared to stand to reason, in the minds of the whole company, that I was an excrescence on the entertainment. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- So close was this resemblance, that a native Dyak maintained that the foliaceous excrescences were really moss. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Editor: Rodney