Medical Definition of Hereditary multiple exostoses

1. A disturbance of enchondral bone growth in which multiple, generally benign osteochondromas of long bones appear during childhood, commonly with shortening of the radius and fibula; the ill-effects are usually mechanical but malignant change is rare; autosomal dominant inheritance. Synonym: diaphysial aclasis, hereditary deforming chondrodystrophy, multiple exostosis, osteochondromatosis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hereditary Multiple Exostoses

hereditary coproporphyria
hereditary deforming chondrodystrophy
hereditary disease
hereditary exostosis
hereditary fructose intolerance
hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia
hereditary hyperthyroidism
hereditary hypertrophic neuropathy
hereditary mechanics
hereditary methemoglobinaemia
hereditary methemoglobinaemic cyanosis
hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
hereditary multiple exostoses (current term)
hereditary multiple trichoepithelioma
hereditary myokymia
hereditary opalescent dentin
hereditary pancreatitis
hereditary pattern
hereditary peroneal nerve dysfunction
hereditary persistence of foetal haemoglobin
hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy
hereditary pyropoikilocytosis
hereditary sensory radicular neuropathy
hereditary spherocytosis
hereditary spinal ataxia

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