Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Formation of callus, as in the knitting together of broken bones.
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Examples
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"As such, it would appear beneficial to promote healthy diet and safe sunlight exposure as part of a strategy to prevent osteo- porosis and fractures."
Bad British diet is putting bones at risk of osteoporosis due to lack of vitamin D 2011
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"As such, it would appear beneficial to promote healthy diet and safe sunlight exposure as part of a strategy to prevent osteo- porosis and fractures."
Bad British diet is putting bones at risk of osteoporosis due to lack of vitamin D 2011
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LIGNUM album, laxum, mucilagine repletum, vasis porosis (bothrenchymate) maximis faciem internam cujusque zonae occupantibus, radiis medullaribus tenuibus equidistantibus.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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In the last clause of the verse porosis is rendered blindness, it more properly means hardness.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860
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LIGNUM album, laxum, mucilagine repletum, vasis porosis (bothrenchymate) maximis faciem internam cujusque zonae occupantibus, radiis medullaribus tenuibus equidistantibus.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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The meaning of the term osteoporosis originates from osteo, meaning bone, and porosis which implies thinning or getting more porous.
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The meaning of the term osteoporosis originates from osteo, meaning bone, and porosis which implies thinning or getting more porous.
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The meaning of the term osteoporosis originates from osteo, meaning bone, and porosis which implies thinning or getting more porous.
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The meaning of the term osteoporosis originates from osteo, meaning bone, and porosis which implies thinning or getting more porous.
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The meaning of the term osteoporosis originates from osteo, meaning bone, and porosis which implies thinning or getting more porous.
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