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EXOSTOSIS
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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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