exostosis

NOUN
  1. a benign outgrowth from a bone (usually covered with cartilage)
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  • -- Where a visible exostosis exists, the presence of spavin is easily detected, yet exostoses that extend over large areas may constitute cause for serious trouble and still be difficult of detection. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • While an exostosis involving any one of the splint bones, even when directly caused by an injury, is called a "splint," the term is employed here, in reference to exostoses not due to direct injury such as in contusions. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • _Osteoma_ occurs in two forms: the exostosis, which may be composed of cancellated or of compact tissue, and the diffuse osteoma or leontiasis ossea (Volume I., p. 485). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • Despite no difference noted in outcome, the authors concluded that the exostosis should be excised if prominent and easily accessible when associated with posterior shoulder pain and tenderness.
  • Before there is evidence of an exostosis, diagnosis of ringbone is not easy, for it is then a problem of detecting the presence of a ligamentous sprain, periostitis, or osteitis. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • In the present study, all except one of the patients had a solitary exostosis.
  • This term is applied to an affection of the tarsus which is usually characterized by the existence of an exostosis on the mesial and inferior portion of the hock. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • _Osteoma_ occurs in two forms: the exostosis, which may be composed of cancellated or of compact tissue, and the diffuse osteoma or leontiasis ossea (Volume I., p. 485). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • Subungual exostosis begins as a reactive fibrous growth that develops cartilage and ultimately ossifies.
  • _Osteoma_ occurs in two forms: the exostosis, which may be composed of cancellated or of compact tissue, and the diffuse osteoma or leontiasis ossea (Volume I., p. 485). Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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