Definition of excrescence in English:

excrescence

noun ɪkˈskrɛs(ə)nsɛkˈskrɛs(ə)nsˌɪkˈskrɛsəns

1A distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality.
the males often have a strange excrescence on the tip of the snout
Example sentencesExamples
- On section, it was unilocular and lined by a dark pink-gray, friable material with yellow papillary excrescences.
- Surface ulceration was also present focally in the tumor with the multifocal papillary excrescences.
- Concurrent with these changes is the formation of marginal osteophytes that are excrescences of bone arising at the margins of the joint.
- The majority of their patients presented with painful ulcers; however, verrucous excrescences were also clinical presentations of oropharyngeal and laryngeal histoplasmosis.
- Further examination revealed a brownish-yellow excrescence made up of dense hyperkeratotic tissue with longitudinal ridges on an erythematous base.
- Moreover, from early accounts, it is often difficult to distinguish true large bony outgrowths from scalp excrescences.
- These families are characterized by dermal spicules that have distal excrescences or extra tangential rays, in the former, and with swollen distal rays on dermalia in the latter.
- The Chinese have a tradition of breaking open the seed of brucea javonica and taping directly over warts and excrescences to stimulate their dissolution.
- Multiple additional lymphatic-type excrescences became evident in the perineal and perianal area with some progression of the cutaneous changes in the pubic area.
- All dendrites bear large numbers of spines, small excrescences on which incoming nerve fibres terminate to form synapses.
- When breeding, some Scutiger males exude nuptial excrescences on their venters.
- Other examples of topical application of herbs and their expressed juice are the use of chelidonium or dandelion latex to remove warts and other excrescences.
- The cyst was opened to reveal a chocolate-like material with no nodules or excrescences on either the inner or outer surface.
- When the female insect has mated, it settles on the cactus and becomes permanently fixed there, sheds all its limbs and swells into a round lump which looks more like an excrescence on the cactus than an insect.
- On X ray there are joint margin excrescences called osteophytes (literally bony growths).
- The appearance and consistency of the cyst lining ranged from smooth and glistening to soft, necrotic, red-gray papillary excrescences.
- Appears as a cystic excrescence projecting away from the metaphysis that has its axis pointing away from the joint.
- The polypoid areas containing dilated spaces in upper dermis mimicked lymphatic-type excrescences and were misinterpreted as lymphatic malformation in MRI and during surgery.
Synonyms
growth, lump, swelling, protuberance, protrusion, knob, nodule, outgrowth
wart, boil, pustule, carbuncle, tumour
1. 1.1 An unattractive or superfluous object or feature.
  the building is a sixties excrescence foisted on an otherwise flawless street
  Example sentencesExamples
  All the hideous excrescences that have overgrown our modern life, the pomps and conventions and dreary solemnities, dread nothing so much as the flash of laughter which, like lightning, shrivels them up and leaves the bones bare.
  We take the view that it is appropriate that it go before a select committee so that consideration can be given to dealing with the excrescences in the drafting, and to aiding the commission to do what is, clearly, critical work.
  Going further, fiction that celebrates darkness and destruction without the redemption of new insight is at best a useless excrescence and at worst a kind of dangerous pollution.
  The tiles break apart to reveal red, raw meatlike excrescences that threaten to overwhelm the entire image.
  Irregularities have to be handled as natural aspects of a language, not as excrescences which needlessly complicate the grammar.
  Another sculpture features dozens of pointed excrescences that jut up from a round base.
  I have yet to meet a single one who isn't sickened to his stomach by the excrescence of his pardons, and by the puerile vandalism of the White House in the last hours of the old regime.
  Are those secret-admirer e-mails real - or just the latest excrescence of an Internet marketing machine grown unfathomably sleazy?
  Some of the worst, and I would say probably the excrescence, in this legislation are the transitional provisions in Part 3.
  Synonyms
  eyesore, blot on the landscape, monstrosity, disfigurement
  informal sight

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin excrescentia, from excrescere 'grow out', from ex- 'out' + crescere 'grow'.

Rhymes

acquiescence, adolescence, arborescence, coalescence, convalescence, deliquescence, effervescence, essence, evanescence, florescence, fluorescence, incandescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, obsolescence, opalescence, phosphorescence, pubescence, putrescence, quiescence, quintessence

Definition of excrescence in US English:

excrescence

nounˌɪkˈskrɛsənsˌikˈskresəns

1A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, especially one that is the result of disease or abnormality.
Example sentencesExamples
- When the female insect has mated, it settles on the cactus and becomes permanently fixed there, sheds all its limbs and swells into a round lump which looks more like an excrescence on the cactus than an insect.
- All dendrites bear large numbers of spines, small excrescences on which incoming nerve fibres terminate to form synapses.
- The polypoid areas containing dilated spaces in upper dermis mimicked lymphatic-type excrescences and were misinterpreted as lymphatic malformation in MRI and during surgery.
- The cyst was opened to reveal a chocolate-like material with no nodules or excrescences on either the inner or outer surface.
- Moreover, from early accounts, it is often difficult to distinguish true large bony outgrowths from scalp excrescences.
- Appears as a cystic excrescence projecting away from the metaphysis that has its axis pointing away from the joint.
- The majority of their patients presented with painful ulcers; however, verrucous excrescences were also clinical presentations of oropharyngeal and laryngeal histoplasmosis.
- On section, it was unilocular and lined by a dark pink-gray, friable material with yellow papillary excrescences.
- Further examination revealed a brownish-yellow excrescence made up of dense hyperkeratotic tissue with longitudinal ridges on an erythematous base.
- Concurrent with these changes is the formation of marginal osteophytes that are excrescences of bone arising at the margins of the joint.
- Other examples of topical application of herbs and their expressed juice are the use of chelidonium or dandelion latex to remove warts and other excrescences.
- On X ray there are joint margin excrescences called osteophytes (literally bony growths).
- Surface ulceration was also present focally in the tumor with the multifocal papillary excrescences.
- The Chinese have a tradition of breaking open the seed of brucea javonica and taping directly over warts and excrescences to stimulate their dissolution.
- These families are characterized by dermal spicules that have distal excrescences or extra tangential rays, in the former, and with swollen distal rays on dermalia in the latter.
- When breeding, some Scutiger males exude nuptial excrescences on their venters.
- Multiple additional lymphatic-type excrescences became evident in the perineal and perianal area with some progression of the cutaneous changes in the pubic area.
- The appearance and consistency of the cyst lining ranged from smooth and glistening to soft, necrotic, red-gray papillary excrescences.
Synonyms
growth, lump, swelling, protuberance, protrusion, knob, nodule, outgrowth
1. 1.1 An unattractive or superfluous addition or feature.
  removing the excrescences of later interpretation
  Example sentencesExamples
  Going further, fiction that celebrates darkness and destruction without the redemption of new insight is at best a useless excrescence and at worst a kind of dangerous pollution.
  Irregularities have to be handled as natural aspects of a language, not as excrescences which needlessly complicate the grammar.
  Are those secret-admirer e-mails real - or just the latest excrescence of an Internet marketing machine grown unfathomably sleazy?
  Some of the worst, and I would say probably the excrescence, in this legislation are the transitional provisions in Part 3.
  Another sculpture features dozens of pointed excrescences that jut up from a round base.
  We take the view that it is appropriate that it go before a select committee so that consideration can be given to dealing with the excrescences in the drafting, and to aiding the commission to do what is, clearly, critical work.
  The tiles break apart to reveal red, raw meatlike excrescences that threaten to overwhelm the entire image.
  I have yet to meet a single one who isn't sickened to his stomach by the excrescence of his pardons, and by the puerile vandalism of the White House in the last hours of the old regime.
  All the hideous excrescences that have overgrown our modern life, the pomps and conventions and dreary solemnities, dread nothing so much as the flash of laughter which, like lightning, shrivels them up and leaves the bones bare.
  Synonyms
  eyesore, blot on the landscape, monstrosity, disfigurement

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin excrescentia, from excrescere ‘grow out’, from ex- ‘out’ + crescere ‘grow’.

单词	excrescence
释义	Definition of excrescence in English: excrescence noun ɪkˈskrɛs(ə)nsɛkˈskrɛs(ə)nsˌɪkˈskrɛsəns 1A distinct outgrowth on a body or plant, resulting from disease or abnormality. the males often have a strange excrescence on the tip of the snout Example sentencesExamples On section, it was unilocular and lined by a dark pink-gray, friable material with yellow papillary excrescences. Surface ulceration was also present focally in the tumor with the multifocal papillary excrescences. Concurrent with these changes is the formation of marginal osteophytes that are excrescences of bone arising at the margins of the joint. The majority of their patients presented with painful ulcers; however, verrucous excrescences were also clinical presentations of oropharyngeal and laryngeal histoplasmosis. Further examination revealed a brownish-yellow excrescence made up of dense hyperkeratotic tissue with longitudinal ridges on an erythematous base. Moreover, from early accounts, it is often difficult to distinguish true large bony outgrowths from scalp excrescences. These families are characterized by dermal spicules that have distal excrescences or extra tangential rays, in the former, and with swollen distal rays on dermalia in the latter. The Chinese have a tradition of breaking open the seed of brucea javonica and taping directly over warts and excrescences to stimulate their dissolution. Multiple additional lymphatic-type excrescences became evident in the perineal and perianal area with some progression of the cutaneous changes in the pubic area. All dendrites bear large numbers of spines, small excrescences on which incoming nerve fibres terminate to form synapses. When breeding, some Scutiger males exude nuptial excrescences on their venters. Other examples of topical application of herbs and their expressed juice are the use of chelidonium or dandelion latex to remove warts and other excrescences. The cyst was opened to reveal a chocolate-like material with no nodules or excrescences on either the inner or outer surface. When the female insect has mated, it settles on the cactus and becomes permanently fixed there, sheds all its limbs and swells into a round lump which looks more like an excrescence on the cactus than an insect. On X ray there are joint margin excrescences called osteophytes (literally bony growths). The appearance and consistency of the cyst lining ranged from smooth and glistening to soft, necrotic, red-gray papillary excrescences. Appears as a cystic excrescence projecting away from the metaphysis that has its axis pointing away from the joint. The polypoid areas containing dilated spaces in upper dermis mimicked lymphatic-type excrescences and were misinterpreted as lymphatic malformation in MRI and during surgery. Synonyms growth, lump, swelling, protuberance, protrusion, knob, nodule, outgrowth wart, boil, pustule, carbuncle, tumour 1.1 An unattractive or superfluous object or feature. the building is a sixties excrescence foisted on an otherwise flawless street Example sentencesExamples All the hideous excrescences that have overgrown our modern life, the pomps and conventions and dreary solemnities, dread nothing so much as the flash of laughter which, like lightning, shrivels them up and leaves the bones bare. We take the view that it is appropriate that it go before a select committee so that consideration can be given to dealing with the excrescences in the drafting, and to aiding the commission to do what is, clearly, critical work. Going further, fiction that celebrates darkness and destruction without the redemption of new insight is at best a useless excrescence and at worst a kind of dangerous pollution. The tiles break apart to reveal red, raw meatlike excrescences that threaten to overwhelm the entire image. Irregularities have to be handled as natural aspects of a language, not as excrescences which needlessly complicate the grammar. Another sculpture features dozens of pointed excrescences that jut up from a round base. I have yet to meet a single one who isn't sickened to his stomach by the excrescence of his pardons, and by the puerile vandalism of the White House in the last hours of the old regime. Are those secret-admirer e-mails real - or just the latest excrescence of an Internet marketing machine grown unfathomably sleazy? Some of the worst, and I would say probably the excrescence, in this legislation are the transitional provisions in Part 3. Synonyms eyesore, blot on the landscape, monstrosity, disfigurement informal sight Origin Late Middle English: from Latin excrescentia, from excrescere 'grow out', from ex- 'out' + crescere 'grow'. Rhymes acquiescence, adolescence, arborescence, coalescence, convalescence, deliquescence, effervescence, essence, evanescence, florescence, fluorescence, incandescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, obsolescence, opalescence, phosphorescence, pubescence, putrescence, quiescence, quintessence Definition of excrescence in US English: excrescence nounˌɪkˈskrɛsənsˌikˈskresəns 1A distinct outgrowth on a human or animal body or on a plant, especially one that is the result of disease or abnormality. Example sentencesExamples When the female insect has mated, it settles on the cactus and becomes permanently fixed there, sheds all its limbs and swells into a round lump which looks more like an excrescence on the cactus than an insect. All dendrites bear large numbers of spines, small excrescences on which incoming nerve fibres terminate to form synapses. The polypoid areas containing dilated spaces in upper dermis mimicked lymphatic-type excrescences and were misinterpreted as lymphatic malformation in MRI and during surgery. The cyst was opened to reveal a chocolate-like material with no nodules or excrescences on either the inner or outer surface. Moreover, from early accounts, it is often difficult to distinguish true large bony outgrowths from scalp excrescences. Appears as a cystic excrescence projecting away from the metaphysis that has its axis pointing away from the joint. The majority of their patients presented with painful ulcers; however, verrucous excrescences were also clinical presentations of oropharyngeal and laryngeal histoplasmosis. On section, it was unilocular and lined by a dark pink-gray, friable material with yellow papillary excrescences. Further examination revealed a brownish-yellow excrescence made up of dense hyperkeratotic tissue with longitudinal ridges on an erythematous base. Concurrent with these changes is the formation of marginal osteophytes that are excrescences of bone arising at the margins of the joint. Other examples of topical application of herbs and their expressed juice are the use of chelidonium or dandelion latex to remove warts and other excrescences. On X ray there are joint margin excrescences called osteophytes (literally bony growths). Surface ulceration was also present focally in the tumor with the multifocal papillary excrescences. The Chinese have a tradition of breaking open the seed of brucea javonica and taping directly over warts and excrescences to stimulate their dissolution. These families are characterized by dermal spicules that have distal excrescences or extra tangential rays, in the former, and with swollen distal rays on dermalia in the latter. When breeding, some Scutiger males exude nuptial excrescences on their venters. Multiple additional lymphatic-type excrescences became evident in the perineal and perianal area with some progression of the cutaneous changes in the pubic area. The appearance and consistency of the cyst lining ranged from smooth and glistening to soft, necrotic, red-gray papillary excrescences. Synonyms growth, lump, swelling, protuberance, protrusion, knob, nodule, outgrowth 1.1 An unattractive or superfluous addition or feature. removing the excrescences of later interpretation Example sentencesExamples Going further, fiction that celebrates darkness and destruction without the redemption of new insight is at best a useless excrescence and at worst a kind of dangerous pollution. Irregularities have to be handled as natural aspects of a language, not as excrescences which needlessly complicate the grammar. Are those secret-admirer e-mails real - or just the latest excrescence of an Internet marketing machine grown unfathomably sleazy? Some of the worst, and I would say probably the excrescence, in this legislation are the transitional provisions in Part 3. Another sculpture features dozens of pointed excrescences that jut up from a round base. We take the view that it is appropriate that it go before a select committee so that consideration can be given to dealing with the excrescences in the drafting, and to aiding the commission to do what is, clearly, critical work. The tiles break apart to reveal red, raw meatlike excrescences that threaten to overwhelm the entire image. I have yet to meet a single one who isn't sickened to his stomach by the excrescence of his pardons, and by the puerile vandalism of the White House in the last hours of the old regime. All the hideous excrescences that have overgrown our modern life, the pomps and conventions and dreary solemnities, dread nothing so much as the flash of laughter which, like lightning, shrivels them up and leaves the bones bare. Synonyms eyesore, blot on the landscape, monstrosity, disfigurement Origin Late Middle English: from Latin excrescentia, from excrescere ‘grow out’, from ex- ‘out’ + crescere ‘grow’.
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