Medical Definition of Rheostosis

1. A hypertrophying and condensing osteitis which tends to run in longitudinal streaks or columns, like wax drippings on a candle, and which involves a number of the long bones. Synonym: flowing hyperostosis, streak hyperostosis. Origin: rheo-+ G. Osteon, bone, + -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rheostosis

rheometer
rheometer
rheometers
rheometry
rheomotor
rheopexy
rheophil
rheophile
rheophiles
rheophore
rheoscope
rheostat
rheostat
rheostatic
rheostats
rheostosis (current term)
rheotaxes
rheotaxis
rheotaxis
rheotome
rheotome
rheotomes
rheotrope
rheotropism
Rhese projection
rhestocythemia
rhesus
rhesus
rhesuses
Rhesus blood group

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