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Definition of Excrescence
1. Noun. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. "The bony excrescence between its horns"
Specialized synonyms: Frontal Eminence, Occipital Protuberance, Belly, Caput, Mogul, Nub, Nubble, Snag, Wart
Generic synonyms: Projection
Derivative terms: Bulge, Bulge, Bulge, Bulge, Bulgy, Excrescent, Gibbous, Gibbous, Hump, Protrude, Protrude, Protuberant, Protuberate
2. Noun. (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body.
Specialized synonyms: Vegetation
Category relationships: Pathology
Derivative terms: Excrescent
Definition of Excrescence
1. 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.
Definition of Excrescence
1. Noun. Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else. ¹
2. Noun. A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct ¹
3. Noun. (phonetics) epenthesis of a consonant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excrescence
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Excrescence
1. A normal outgrowth, a disfiguring addition. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excrescence
Literary usage of Excrescence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1845)
"The excrescence grew on each side of the anus, extending over and filling up ...
It appeared to be non-malignant ; but simply an excrescence emanating from ..."
2. Essays on the puerperal fever and other diseases peculiar to women: Selected by Fleetwood Churchill, Sydenham Society (1849)
"CLARKE ON CAULIFLOWER excrescence FROM THE OS UTERI.1 THE object of the present
communication is to give some account of a disease not hitherto described, ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1856)
"An extension of membrane like sclerotic conjunctiva, over a part of the cornea,
is sometimes met with. Fungous excrescence of the conjunctiva ..."
4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1869)
"The term cauliflower excrescence was applied to it in 1809, by Dr. John Clarke,
from its resemblance to the vegetable known by that name, and is so graphic ..."
5. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1814)
"The same correction was applied to the oxygen absorbed. On the Cauliflower
excrescence from the Os Uteri; and Case of a Collection of Pus in the Cavity of ..."
6. The Obstetric catechism: Containing Two Thousand Three Hundred and Forty by Joseph Warrington (1860)
"With what other diseases may this cauliflower excrescence be confounded ? ...
TREATMENT OF CAULIFLOWER excrescence OF THE UTERUS. lias any surgical ..."
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