excrescence

Other forms: excrescences

Definitions of excrescence

1. noun

   something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
   “the bony excrescence between its horns”

   synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling

   types:

   frontal eminence

   either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit

   occipital protuberance

   prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone

   belly

   a part that bulges deeply

   caput

   a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure

   mogul

   a bump on a ski slope

   nub, nubble

   a small lump or protuberance

   snag

   a sharp protuberance

   wart

   any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

   type of:

   projection

   any solid convex shape that juts out from something
2. noun

   (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
   types:

   vegetation

   an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)

   type of:

   appendage, outgrowth, process

   a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant

   growth

   (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)