ppl. a. [ad. Fr. exostosé, f. exostose EXOSTOSIS: see -ED1.]

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  1.  Affected with exostosis.

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1758.  J. S., Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (1771), 96. I … found … the sixth of the true Ribs … exostosed. Ibid., 320. You may see … an exostosed Ridge.

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1766.  Justamond, in Phil. Trans., LVI. 270. I had extracted an entire tibia, exostosed and carious.

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  ¶ 2. Having an external bony covering; = EXOSKELETAL. rare.

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1887.  E. D. Cope, Origin of the Fittest, 46. The cartilaginous, osseous, and exostosed … characters distinguish otherwise nearly allied genera.

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