What is "growths"

Usage examples of "growths".

The flesh of that face was mottled with brown, leprous growths, the lips all but eaten away to reveal misshapen, fanged teeth.

The growths had covered her skull like a knotty helmet, had enclosed her facial features and sealed them up except for a small slit at her left eye and a ragged hole over her mouth through which she breathed and ate.

He’d heard that phrase through those damned speakers before, and he knew they meant either the keloids or the growths that covered the faces of many people.

The hard growths had pulled Sister’s mouth slightly to the left, giving her a sardonic smile.

Lawry knew what it was: that damned disease that a lot of others in the Army of Excellence had gotten as well—the growths that got on your face and grew together, covering everything but a hole at your mouth.

Beneath the growths, Macklin’s face burned and itched fiercely, and the bones ached as if they were being bent into new shapes.

Where the windings didn’t exactly meet, there were gray growths as hard as armor plate.

Sometimes she was afraid her neck was about to snap, and whatever was beneath the growths burned so savagely that she often couldn’t hold back a scream.

Sister looked at him, her face with its hideous growths mirroring shock, anger and disillusion.

The vision in her eye faded in and out, and whatever was under all the thick crust of growths burned and seethed.

Her scalp was itching maddeningly, and she put her hand under the hood of her parka to touch the mass of growths that encased her skull and trailed down the back of her neck.

Now the remaining eyehole in the mask of growths was almost sealed over.

The dirty bandages still covered most of his face, but growths protruded like gnarled knuckles through spaces between them.

And then, beneath his fingers, he felt the growths under the bandages move and swell outward, like pressure seething below the crust of a volcano.

Less than a week before, the helmet of growths that had covered her face and head had cracked open, and Vulcevic had left a lantern burning for the Virgin Mary in the midst of a snow-shrouded forest.