| NOUN | shape | excrescence, bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion | something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings |
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| body | excrescence | (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body |
| Meaning | Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings. | |
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| Example | "the bony excrescence between its horns" | |
| Synonyms | bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion | |
| Narrower | belly | A part that bulges deeply |
| caput | A headlike protuberance on an organ or structure | |
| frontal eminence | Either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit | |
| mogul | A bump on a ski slope | |
| nub, nubble | A small lump or protuberance | |
| occipital protuberance | prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone | |
| snag | A sharp protuberance | |
| wart | Any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) | |
| Broader | projection | Any solid convex shape that juts out from something |
| Spanish | bulto, corcova, excrecencia, extrusión, joroba, prominencia, protuberancia | |
| Catalan | bony, gepa, gep, monticle, prominència, protuberància | |
| Adjectives | excrescent | forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) |
| Meaning | (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body. | |
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| Category | pathology | The branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases |
| Narrower | vegetation | An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) |
| Broader | growth | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |
| process, outgrowth, appendage | A natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | |
| Spanish | excrecencia | |
| Catalan | excrescència | |
| Adjectives | excrescent | forming an outgrowth (usually an excessive outgrowth) |
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