hyperostosis
nounEtymology From hyper- + ostosis.
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Medicine, Sciences An 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:
- Derived terms
- diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
- Related terms
- ectostosis, endostosis, exostosis, osteosis