exostosis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A benign, bony growth, often covered with cartilage, on the surface of a bone or tooth. countable,uncountable
    — Unquestionably, gentlemen, the bones most liable to exostosis are, first, the femur; secondly, the humeri; and thirdly, the lower jaw. But exostoses are met with on the sternum clavicle, and the bones of the head; in short, I may state, that there are no bones on which exostoses may not be produced.

词形变化

exostoses plural

词源

From Koine Greek ἐξόστωσις (exóstōsis, “a diseased excrescence on the bone”), from Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
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