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as in tumors
an abnormal mass of tissue
fortunately, the excrescency could be removed with surgery
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as in defects
something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing
some feel that the planned skyscraper would be an excrescency on the city's low-rise skyline
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excrescencies
Noun
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In the brain, MRI can differentiate between white matter and gray matter and can also be used to diagnose aneurysms and tumors.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
28 Oct. 2025 -
The scans are often used to check for aneurysms of cerebral vessels, conditions of the eye and inner ear, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord conditions, stroke, tumors and brain injury from trauma.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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When the wafer is rinsed, these clumps redeposit onto the surface, causing the defects.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Its main goal is to ensure the design can be reliably manufactured into a working chip, free of physical defects that might cause failures later on.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The winds are gone, the water has receded, but the scars will last.—
David Culver,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Seeing women of diverse ages walk with such confidence—owning their scars, flat reconstructions or their choice to remain flat—was a powerful act of defiance.—
Tabitha Britt,
Flow Space,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Dark brown blotches of varying sizes dot their sides and back.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
7 Oct. 2025
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This fungal disease appears as gray blotches on the bark, eventually developing into sunken cankers.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Excrescencies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excrescencies. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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