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EXOSTOSIS (exostoses)

• EXOSTOSIS (noun)
The noun EXOSTOSIS has 1 sense:

1. a benign outgrowth from a bone (usually covered with cartilage)

Familiarity information: EXOSTOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

• EXOSTOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A benign outgrowth from a bone (usually covered with cartilage)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("exostosis" is a kind of...):

growth ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))

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