caudation

1. (medicine) A fibrous growth.Examples: "In acute cases they are rapidly produced, make scarcely an attempt at development, and die off with rapidity; in schirrus they are formed more slowly, and in much smaller numbers, live longer, and make some attempt at caudation, but they are still farther removed in form from the typical cell of healthy tissues."; "The caudation or fibrous tendency and the regularity of arrangement is greater than in cancer."; "The blood-vessels ( capillaries), were greatly increased in size, with thickened walls, to which colorless caudations and spindle-shaped corpuscles were attached."

2. (writing) A section appended to the end of a word, line, or poem.Examples: "To make it a bit easier to follow, each added letter is underlined, and insertions/hydrations/ caudations are parenthesized."; "As with the voice, this physicality is natural and flexible, a background of four-beat lines, grouped into four five-line stanzas (a central section flanked by anacrusis and caudation) with occasional moves to five- or six- beat lines, and occasional catalexis ("unrealized"/"silent" beats), always at stanzaic ends."

3. (writing) The addition of a caudation.Examples: "There is no adequate reporting system in use that can afford to treat words otherwise than as Hamlet's mother treated her heart, "cleave them in twain and fling away the basser half;" but in script the "baser half" in variably the final portion, and we get in the sentences of the curt style a jumble of inchoate nouns, paraplegic verbs and amputated adjectives, truncated of their tails and dependent each for its re-caudation on the accurate re-cordation (ahem !) of an equally deficient context."; "But besides these examples there are two other ways of expanding the sonnet; by doubling and by caudation."; "In it, aided by diagrams and equations, you can learn of caudation and lateral expansion, doubling and interlacing."