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exostosis; hyperostosis; osteoma; osteoncus
A bony growth which arises from the surface of a bone, often involving ossification of muscular attachments.
Specific
diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH, Forestier disease, ankylosing hyperostosis of the spine, spondylosis hyperostotica)
endosteal hyperostosis Worth type; autosomal dominant osteosclerosis (WENHY)
hyperostosis corticalis generalisata (van Buchem disease)
multiple hereditary exostosis
osteoma cutis
subungual exostosis
General
abnormal morphologic structure (malformation)
References
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, FA Davis, Philadelphia,
1977