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excrescence

[ek-skres´ens]

an abnormal outgrowth; a projection related to a disease or pathologic condition. adj., adj excres´cent.

ex·cres·cence

(eks-kres'ens),

Any outgrowth from a surface.

[L. ex- cresco, pp. -cretus, to grow forth]

Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

excrescence

(ĭk-skrĕs′əns)

1. An outgrowth or enlargement, especially an abnormal one, such as a wart.

2. A usually unwanted or unnecessary accretion: "Independent agencies were an excrescence on the Constitution" (Los Angeles Times).

ex·cres·cence

(eks-kres'ĕns)

Any outgrowth from a surface.

[L. ex-cresco, pp. -cretus, to grow forth]

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

excrescence

Any projection of abnormal tissue from a surface, such as a wart, heart valve vegetations or a nasal polyp.

Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

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The flower, the anthologized part that is gathered, is nonetheless "(de)part(ed)" by force of this "transcendental excrescence" that sets it apart from the "series of bodies or objects of which it forms a part." The anthologized part is therefore singular.

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Former senator Rene Saguisag called the unbecoming presidential behavior 'excrescence,' a word that is similar in meaning to execrable.

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(3,14) Thus, it can be concluded that if a carcinoma arises from an excrescence, it could be mainly from metaplastic squamous epithelium of ductal lining of minor salivary glands in palate, but may not from the palatal surface epithelium.

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TRACEY Connelly, the excrescence who was Baby P's mother, wants a gastric band fitted.

Lord, please rid us of these unelected leeching liggers

Yet the locals see jump racing as an excrescence, at best an engaging novelty; a bit like the cross country-chase at Cheltenham.

Our jumps love affair not shared by rest of the world

Representative images, including: a plain radiograph (Figure 1), 3D reconstructed computed tomography (Figue 2) and T1 coronal magnetic resonance imaging (Figure 3) indicated a bony excrescence from the inferior aspect of the left ischium measuring 1.7 x 1.1 cm.

Dyspareunia associated with a pelvic digit

Metastatic adenocarcinoma involving a mesothelial/monocytic incidental cardiac excrescence (cardiac MICE).

Cardiovascular pseudoneoplasms

The very word 'baroque' derives (via French in the 18th century) from a Portuguese word for a misshapen pearl and there is a splendid example of such an excrescence turned into a delightfully unnecessary bejewelled geegaw from Dresden at the outset of the show, richly scattered with diamonds and emeralds.

Baroque 1620-1800

The church was "an unadorned edifice, of an octangular form, rather dark from the smallness of its windows, and having, attached to one of its sides, a circular projection, bearing a diminutive extinguisherlooking excrescence, by way of steeple.

Irish folk flocked to Brum's Gun Quarter

CAN I just add my voice to those expressing their dismay at the horrendous excrescence that is to blight the Pier Head.

Letter: Horrendous excrescence

Greek art is for Hegel the place where material form and spiritual content are most perfectly accommodated to each other: Geist appears in marble as a facsimile of the human form with no visible excrescence of matter (as in the symbolic-oriental) or of spirit (as in the romantic-north European).

Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky, editors. Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture

The most recent excrescence is the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, handed down three days before Christmas, in Chamberlain v.