Crossword-Solution: EXOSTOSIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exostosis | n. | Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. |
| Exostosis | n. | A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease. |
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| abnormal bony outgrowth from the surface of a bone | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with EXOSTOSIS (5)
The patient, it appears, had a large exostosis on the body of the pubes which, during parturition, was forced through the walls of the uterus and bladder, resulting in death.
One of the long bones had been splintered; the fragments had united, but there remained large morbid growths of bone (exostosis) in several places.
There is no reason to suppose that an exostosis formed on the frontal bone as a result of repeated mechanical stimulation due to the butting of stags would give off a special hormone which was never formed in the body before, but it would probably in its increased growth give off an increased quantity of intermediate waste products of the same kind as the tissues from which it arose gave off before.
Rarefying degenerative changes manifested by exostosis involving the phalanges of the young, causing ringbone, are fairly common in occurrence throughout this country.
Also, the extent or area of the base of an exostosis as well as its exact position, needs be determined before one may estimate the probable outcome in any case,--whether treatment should be encouraged or discouraged by the practitioner.