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exostosis /ex·os·to·sis/ (ek″sos-to´sis)

1. a benign bony growth projecting outward from a bone surface.

2. osteochondroma.exostot´ic

exostosis cartilagi´nea a variety of osteoma consisting of a layer of cartilage developing beneath the periosteum of a bone.

ivory exostosis compact osteoma.

multiple exostoses an inherited condition in which multiple cartilaginous or osteocartilaginous excrescences grow out from the cortical surfaces of long bones.

subungual exostosis a cartilage-capped reactive bone spur occurring on the distal phalanx, usually of the great toe.

multiple exostoses.

See diaphyseal aclasis.

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