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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In medicine, having the property of consolidating broken parts; promoting the union of fractured bones.
  • noun In medicine, a remedy believed to promote the union of fractured parts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Med.) Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

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  • adjective medicine, dated Having the quality of consolidating broken bones.

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Ancient Greek

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