Dilation vs Excrescence - What's the difference?
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The act of dilating.
State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
(obsolete) Delay.
Something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.
A disfiguring or unwanted mark or adjunct
(phonetics) epenthesis of a consonant, e.g., warmth as [?w?rmp?] (adding a [p] between [m] and [?]), or .
Dilation is a related term of excrescence.
As nouns the difference between dilation and excrescence
is that dilation is the act of dilating while excrescence is something, usually abnormal, which grows out of something else.dilation
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(en noun)- (Bishop Hall)