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- adjective medicine Exhibiting
osteosclerosis ; thus, showing an abnormal increase in bone density
Etymologies
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osteo- + sclerotic
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Examples
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Dkk1 allele results in an osteosclerotic phenotype, and the opposite is observed in transgenic mice over-expressing
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jochen Schulze et al. 2010
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Bone resorption increases tumour growth in a mouse model of osteosclerotic breast cancer metastasis.
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