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FIBROUS DYSPLASIA OF BONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disturbance in which bone that is undergoing lysis is replaced by an abnormal proliferation of fibrous tissue resulting in bone lesions or skin lesions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("fibrous dysplasia of bone" is a kind of...):
dysplasia (abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fibrous dysplasia of bone"):
Albright's disease; polyostotic fibrous dysplasia (fibrous dysplasia of bone affecting multiple bones)
monostotic fibrous dysplasia (fibrous dysplasia of bone confined to a single bone)
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