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Pensile vs Acrochordon - What's the difference?

pensile | acrochordon |

As an adjective pensile

is hanging down, suspended.

As a noun acrochordon is

a soft, pedunculated or pensile wart, consisting of myomatous or edematous fibrous tissue, often found on the neck or eyelids of elderly persons.

pensile

English

Alternative forms

* pensill (obsolete )

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hanging down, suspended.
  • * 1658': However the account of the '''Pensill or hanging gardens of ''Babylon'' [...] is of no slender antiquity — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 165)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    acrochordon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) A soft, pedunculated or pensile wart, consisting of myomatous or edematous fibrous tissue, often found on the neck or eyelids of elderly persons.

    • Synonyms

    * fibroepithelial polyp * skin tag