EXCRESCENCE
\ɛkskɹˈɛsəns], \ɛkskɹˈɛsəns], \ɛ_k_s_k_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of EXCRESCENCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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That which grows out unnaturally from anything else: an outbreak: a wart or tumor: a superfluous part.
By Daniel Lyons
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A tumour, which forms at the surface of organs, and especially on the skin, mucous membranes, or ulcerated surfaces. Excrescences differ in size, shape, cause, &c., and each requires its own treatment. Warts, condylomata, polypi, hemorrhoids, belong to this head.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A morbid outgrowth from a cutaneous or mucous surface; in botany, a nodule or embryo bud on the surface of a stem, a gall, etc.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. An out-growth;—a protuberance growing on any part of the body, as a wart; — an unnatural enlargement of a plant; an abnormal shoot; — any preternatural production;—a superfluous and troublesome part.
