Definition of Exostasis

Definition of Exostasis

||Ex`os*to"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; out + &?; bone: cf. F. exostose.] 1. (Med.) Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.

2. (Bot.) A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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