parostosis

English

Etymology

para- +‎ ostosis

Noun

parostosis (plural parostoses)

1. (biology) ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parostosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)