Vegetation (pathology)
In medicine, a vegetation is an abnormal growth named for its similarity to natural vegetation.
Vegetations are often associated with endocarditis.
It can be made of fibrin and platelets.
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“When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winter ... decent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)