Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Variant of osteosis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. bone formation; ossification
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Bone formation; ossification. See ectostosis, and endostosis.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Think of it this way: “cranio” = skull; “syn” = joining; “ostosis” = bone.
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The bone scan showed that she had some areas of what ` s called hyper-ostosis (ph), which is basically just overgrowth of bone in certain areas of her body.
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