Excrescence

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Excrescence may refer to:

• Excrescence (phonology), the addition of a consonant to a word
• In medicine and physiology, an outgrowth, especially of this skin, such as occurs in carnosity
• Excrescence (architecture), a term defined by the architect Ruskin to mean an unpleasant addition to a building