Portuguese to English Dictionary (Dicionário Português-Inglês)

Excrescence

A distinct, abnormal, or disfiguring outgrowth on the body of a human, animal, or plant, such as a wart or tumor.

Exhume

To dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground.

Exility

The quality or state of being slender, thin, or meager.

Exogamy

The custom of marrying outside a community, clan, or tribe.

Expropriation

The action by the state or an authority of taking property from its owner for public use or benefit.

Expurgation

The removal of material from a piece of writing that is considered offensive or unsuitable.

Old Church Slavonic

The first literary and liturgical language of the Slavs, based on a 9th-century Slavic dialect and used widely in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Statism

A political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.

Strabismus

A visual defect in which the eyes are improperly aligned and point in different directions.

Stratum granulosum

A thin layer of cells in the epidermis lying between the stratum spinosum and stratum corneum, characterized by cells containing keratohyalin granules.