EXOSTOSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: exostoses   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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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