Meanings
nounhyperostosis (plural hyperostoses)
plural hyperostoses
- medicineAn excessive growth or thickening of bone.
In the bibliometric survey, the overwhelming majority of stress indicator studies focused on one or more of the following: porotic hyperostosis (PH, usually in the orbital roofs but sometimes also in the cranial vault), […]
2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 29
Origin
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 骨質增生 /骨质增生
- 骨質增生 /骨质增生 (gǔzhì zēngshēng)an excessive growth or thickening of bone
Irish hipearostóis
- hipearostóisan excessive growth or thickening of bone
Italian iperostosi
- iperostosian excessive growth or thickening of bone
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