excrescence

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“Do you take this excrescence to be your husband?”

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

To press a button and see your own excrescence appear in the preordained format, minted, can feel like a kind of magic.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

Things didn't improve from there, with The Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018

Its head is a sculptural confection of broken cycles, its rear a writhing excrescence of black rubber loops.

From Economist • Oct. 26, 2017

Another irregularity of the pock is what is familiarly termed the raspberry excrescence.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various