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multiple exostoses

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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.


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