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excrescence (s), excrescences (pl) (noun forms)
1. An abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body.
2. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
3. Etymology: "the action of growing out", from Latin excrescentia, "abnormal growths"; from excrescentem, excrescens, which came from excrescere, "to grow out, to grow up"; from ex-, "out" + crescere, "to grow".
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