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Excrescent

Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity.

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Excrescence 74% connected

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a tr…

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Excrescence 74% connected

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a tr…

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Hump 74% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

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Hump 74% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

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Growth 66% connected

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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Abundance noun · 78% connection

An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to qu…

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Acetonemia noun · 78% connection

an abnormal increase of ketone bodies in the blood as in diabetes mellitus

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Aerial adjective · 78% connection

Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, ae…

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Aminoaciduria noun · 78% connection

abnormal presence of amino acids in the urine; usually a symptom of metabolic defects

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Antiarrhythmic noun · 78% connection

a drug used to treat an abnormal heart rhythm

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Antiarrhythmic drug noun · 78% connection

a drug used to treat an abnormal heart rhythm

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Antiarrhythmic medication noun · 78% connection

a drug used to treat an abnormal heart rhythm

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Autoimmune disease noun · 78% connection

any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce…

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Autoimmune disorder noun · 78% connection

any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce…

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Cancer of the blood noun · 78% connection

malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of can…

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Cardiac arrhythmia noun · 78% connection

an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart

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Cardiac murmur noun · 78% connection

an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves

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Cram verb · 78% connection

To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity…

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Defect noun · 78% connection

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Deviated septum noun · 78% connection

abnormal displacement of any wall that separates two chambers (usually in the nasal cavity)

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Dysplasia noun · 78% connection

abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth

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Enlarged heart noun · 78% connection

an abnormal enlargement of the heart; "mild cardiomegaly is common in athletes"

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Excess noun · 78% connection

The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what…

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