How To Use Excrescence In A Sentence
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During the first year he has no horns, but a horny excrescence, which is short and rough, and covered with a thin hairy skin.
The Book of Household Management
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They are covered with reddish brown hair, and the sides of the face, in adult males, are commonly produced into two crescentic, flexible excrescences, like fatty tumours.
Essays
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The Chinese have a tradition of breaking open the seed of brucea javonica and taping directly over warts and excrescences to stimulate their dissolution.
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All dendrites bear large numbers of spines, small excrescences on which incoming nerve fibres terminate to form synapses.
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But the vegetable substance in which the gallic acid most abounds is _nutgall_, a kind of excrescence that grows on oaks, and from which the acid is commonly obtained for its various purposes.
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
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She is being dragged backwards, away from the excrescence that despoils her bedroom floor, onto the landing.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The new office block is an excrescence .
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed "thunder-besom" is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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When breeding, some Scutiger males exude nuptial excrescences on their venters.
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The new office block is an excrescence on the landscape.
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Word of God, instead of allowing it to penetrate more and more the inner spiritual nature: he therefore counsels them to purify themselves from all that is evil, all excrescences of the inward life which passion nourishes, and in meekness to suffer the word implanted in their hearts to take deeper and deeper root therein.
The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: II. The Epistle of James, Practically Explained.
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Further examination revealed a brownish-yellow excrescence made up of dense hyperkeratotic tissue with longitudinal ridges on an erythematous base.
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The new office development is an excrescence on the face of the city.
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Another sculpture features dozens of pointed excrescences that jut up from a round base.
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The Chinese have a tradition of breaking open the seed of brucea javonica and taping directly over warts and excrescences to stimulate their dissolution.
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The new museum is nothing but an excrescence on the urban landscape.
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Irregularities have to be handled as natural aspects of a language, not as excrescences which needlessly complicate the grammar.
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The new museum is nothing but an excrescence on the urban landscape.
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the bony excrescence between its horns
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Appears as a cystic excrescence projecting away from the metaphysis that has its axis pointing away from the joint.
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Girls are apt to be found affected with polypoid excrescences at the meatus, which when removed will cause the enuresis to disappear.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
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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.
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But the bust format ensures a rudimentary form without gestural and signifying elements or excrescences.
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This one, which was bestrode by a pale young man in khaki, had a bulging excrescence on one side.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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The Rhizocephala remain astomatous; they lose all their limbs completely, and appear as sausage-like, sack-shaped or discoidal excrescences of their host, filled with ova (Figures 59 and 60); from the point of attachment closed tubes, ramified like roots, sink into the interior of the host, twisting round its intestine, or becoming diffused among the sac-like tubes of its liver.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin
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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.
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Watery ophthalmies of a chronic character, with pains; fungous excrescences of the eyelids, externally and internally, called fig, which destroyed the sight of many persons.
Of The Epidemics
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For our present purpose hypertrophy may be considered as it affects the axile or the foliar organs, and also according to the way in which the increased size is manifested, as by increased thickness or swelling -- intumescence, or by augmented length-elongation, by expansion or flattening, or, lastly, by the formation of excrescences or outgrowths, which may be classed under the head of luxuriance or enation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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A hard, bony excrescence was visible above one of the animal's hooves.
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Some of the worst, and I would say probably the excrescence, in this legislation are the transitional provisions in Part 3.
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They wanted to peel away the excrescence and get back to the simple Gospel message itself.
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This normally took the form of an excrescence or area of skin that was insensible to pain.
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Already, the gross excrescence that is slowly emerging from its chrysalis is provoking horror among local residents, as its impact on a once gracious townscape becomes evident.
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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.
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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.
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed thunder-besom is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning.
Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
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His eyebrows were of a more than wonted shagginess, growing together at the bridge of his nose, so as to form a thick excrescence of hair that bore an unsettling resemblance to a member of that singularly repellent variety of arthropod commonly known as the centipede.
Nevermore
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The conjecture is confirmed by the name thunder-besom which is applied to mistletoe in the Swiss canton of Aargau, for the epithet clearly implies a close connexion between the parasite and the thunder; indeed “thunder-besom” is a popular name in Germany for any bushy nest-like excrescence growing on a branch, because such a parasitic growth is actually believed by the ignorant to be a product of lightning.
The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
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For our present purpose hypertrophy may be considered as it affects the axile or the foliar organs, and also according to the way in which the increased size is manifested, as by increased thickness or swelling -- intumescence, or by augmented length-elongation, by expansion or flattening, or, lastly, by the formation of excrescences or outgrowths, which may be classed under the head of luxuriance or enation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The egg of the bird breaks clumsily under the blows of a wart-like excrescence which is formed expressly upon the beak of the unborn bird; the egg of the Cricket, of a far superior structure, opens like an ivory casket.
Social Life in the Insect World
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He now beheld Lenny rising with some difficulty, still panting hard, and with hysterical sounds akin to what is vulgarly called blubbering, his fine new waistcoat sprinkled with his own blood, which flowed from his nose, -- nose that seemed to Lenny Fairfield's feelings to be a nose no more, but a swollen, gigantic, mountainous Slawkenbergian excrescence; in fact, he felt all nose!
My Novel — Complete
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If my body was now trim and neat, redeemed from the excrescences of flesh, it was also clean.
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Whether out of delicacy or a profound obliviousness, he didn't comment on the gangrenous-looking excrescence at the centre of my face.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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Concurrent with these changes is the formation of marginal osteophytes that are excrescences of bone arising at the margins of the joint.
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She brings with her the excrescence which is found upon the forehead of a new-cast foal, of the size of a dried fig, and which unless first eaten by the mare, the mother never admits her young to the nourishment of her milk.
Lives of the Necromancers
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On section, it was unilocular and lined by a dark pink-gray, friable material with yellow papillary excrescences.
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The scrolls of the ears flat against the side of the skull were so large that they looked like abnormal excrescences.
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In Sussex, the peculiar excrescence which is often found on the
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Multiple additional lymphatic-type excrescences became evident in the perineal and perianal area with some progression of the cutaneous changes in the pubic area.
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The new office block is an excrescence on the landscape.
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On X ray there are joint margin excrescences called osteophytes (literally bony growths).
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Other species of ichneumon insert their eggs into the aphis, and into the larva of the aphidivorous fly: others into the bedeguar of rose trees, and the gall-nuts of oaks; whence those excrescences seem to be produced, as well as the hydatides in the frontal sinus of sheep and calves by the stimulus of the larvæ deposited in them.] [Footnote: _While fierce Libellula_, l.
The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
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L — n seemed a little confounded at this remark, and assured him it was nothing but a common excrescence of the cuticula, but that the bones were all sound below; for the truth of this assertion he appealed to the touch, desiring he would feel the part.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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The trade union block vote is an excrescence on democracy.
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If my body was now trim and neat, redeemed from the excrescences of flesh, it was also clean.
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There were no hills, only flat barren fields growing an excrescence of barbed wire between themselves and the enemy.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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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.
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The tiles break apart to reveal red, raw meatlike excrescences that threaten to overwhelm the entire image.
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If you looked no further than the most conspicuous feature of his face, a nose covered with excrescences red and swollen enough to figure in a dish of truffles, you might have inferred that the worthy man had an easy temper, foolish and easy-going, that of a perfect gaby; and you would have been deceived, like all at the
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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The appearance and consistency of the cyst lining ranged from smooth and glistening to soft, necrotic, red-gray papillary excrescences.
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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.
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But the vegetable substance in which the gallic acid most abounds is _nutgall_, a kind of excrescence that grows on oaks, and from which the acid is commonly obtained for its various purposes.
Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments
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When breeding, some Scutiger males exude nuptial excrescences on their venters.
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Only the north-west corner was a little place jutting out from the great wall, a kind of excrescence or loop, no doubt used in the old distrustful days for observation, where it was possible to sit really unseen, because between it and the house was a thick clump of daphne.
The Enchanted April
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The new museum is nothing but an excrescence on the urban landscape.
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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.
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Let us also note that the lower pole expands into the umbilical excrescence, which is less easy of perforation than those parts protected by the skin alone.
Social Life in the Insect World
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Sticking out the wall, a hideous copper excrescence, was the new gas pipe, vertical from waist height but then, up above my head, twisting out to disappear through the ceiling at the point where the cornices met.
It Gets Worse « Tales from the Reading Room
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When the Ganges comes down, it might be expected wash the excrescence back soil.
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The stair banisters had excrescences shaped like pew ends every few treads.
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The polypoid areas containing dilated spaces in upper dermis mimicked lymphatic-type excrescences and were misinterpreted as lymphatic malformation in MRI and during surgery.
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= -- The scales that are met with in some plants, either as excrescences from the petals, or as imperfect representatives of stamens or other organs, are occasionally staminoid; thus the scales of _Saponaria officinalis_, of _Silene_,
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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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.
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In addition to this umbrella-like ornament on its head, it has what may be called a pelerine suspended from the neck, formed by a thick fan of glossy steel-blue feathers which grow on a long fleshy lobe or excrescence.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
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Only in the north-west corner was a little place jutting out from the great wall, a kind of excrescence or loop, no doubt used in the old distrustful days for observation, where it was possible to sit really unseen, because between it and the house was a thick clump of daphne.
The Enchanted April
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The majority of their patients presented with painful ulcers; however, verrucous excrescences were also clinical presentations of oropharyngeal and laryngeal histoplasmosis.
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Unwrapping some white mosquito-netting, she presented to view a large, bulbous object encircled with protuberances, excrescenced with golden knobbiness -- this object, strangely sticky, smelled something like bananas; it was the Everything, completed and unveiled.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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Moreover, from early accounts, it is often difficult to distinguish true large bony outgrowths from scalp excrescences.
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Directly across Tremont Street from the corner where I stood was the entrance to the Old Burying Ground, which occupies a kind of excrescence of land off Boston Common-that is, the area is attached but not a part of the Common proper.
Beacon Street Mourning
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The trade union block vote is an excrescence on democracy.
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Are those secret-admirer e-mails real - or just the latest excrescence of an Internet marketing machine grown unfathomably sleazy?
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Surface ulceration was also present focally in the tumor with the multifocal papillary excrescences.
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The cyst was opened to reveal a chocolate-like material with no nodules or excrescences on either the inner or outer surface.
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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.
