excrescence

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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 • Jan. 29, 2020

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

From Economist • Oct. 26, 2017

This ravishing excrescence reminded me of a shipwreck-themed Alexander McQueen show from 2002, which opened with a video of a drowning girl.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 21, 2016

The surgeon deals essentially with the swelling, which, producing irregularities in the outline of the accessible surfaces of the body, is regarded as an excrescence or outgrowth.

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