porosis

English

Noun

porosis (usually uncountable, plural poroses)

  1. The formation of callus; the knitting together of broken bones.
    • 1971, Herbert Junghanns, Georg Schmorl, E. F. Besemann, The Human Spine in Health and Disease, page 119:
      Flat vertebrae and wedging spine of an aged woman who died from starvation are found as in the other malacic poroses.

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Adjective

porōsīs

  1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of porōsus
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