Excrescence

n.

1.

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. The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. - Addison.

Noun	1.	excrescence - something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form Synonyms: extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, bulge, protrusion, protuberance, bump, prominence
	2.	excrescence - (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body

belly, bulge, bump, caput, extrusion, frontal eminence, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, mogul, nub, nubble, occipital protuberance, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, snag, wart

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