VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / eburnation

Thesaurus: eburnation

A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. n. A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.
  2. n. a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory
  3. A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.
  4. A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases ofthese tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and cometo resemble ivory.
  5. n a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory