Medical Definition of Exostoses
1. A disorder where there are noncancerous lumps or growths within the ear canal or on the pinna of the ear (external ear). most lumps are sebaceous cysts but some are bony overgrowths known as exostoses (or osteomas). If large enough they may interfere with hearing. In this case surgical removal may be required. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exostoses
Literary usage of Exostoses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1874)
"Hereditary exostoses.—An interesting specimen of this somewhat rare ... Cases of
hereditary multiple exostoses are mentioned by Paget in his work on ..."
2. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"exostoses—Upon the long bones there occasionally develop osseous outgrowths ...
Part of a pedigree of exostoses on the long bones that have been traced ..."
3. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"As a rule exostoses occur in young subjects before puberty during the period of
active growth of the bones (exostoses de croissance). ..."
4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1879)
"Professor Welcker, of Halle, described the presence of exostoses in the ...
784), a man aged about 36, three small exostoses were situated in the left ..."
5. Observations on Surgical Diseases of the Head and Neck: Selected from the by Drewry Ottley (1848)
"The exostoses of the lower jaw will alone form the object of this Memoir, ...
The exostoses occurring in the bone of the lower jaw are almost always similar ..."
6. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1885)
"The lower extremities presented the most pronounced deformities, and showed the
two forms of exostoses which Professor Stoker stated to be more common than ..."
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