The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromπυκνός“dense”
- English todaypycnodysostosis
From Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós, “dense”) + dys- (“defective”) + ostosis (“condition of the bone”).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.