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What does excrescence mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word excrescence? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else
  2. a disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct
  3. (phonetics) epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [ˈwɔrmpθ] (adding a [p] between [m] and [θ]), or -t (Etymology 2).
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Mercifully, this latest inhuman excrescence is not government policy, as at Abu Ghraib.
It would be absurd to dismiss it as an excrescence, and untypical of the American mind.
This normally took the form of an excrescence or area of skin that was insensible to pain.
The aristocracy, then, was regarded as a sort of cancer, or excrescence of society.
Further examination revealed a brownish-yellow excrescence made up of dense hyperkeratotic tissue with longitudinal ridges on an erythematous base.
Appears as a cystic excrescence projecting away from the metaphysis that has its axis pointing away from the joint.

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