What's the difference between exosmosis and exostosis?

Exosmosis


Definition:

  • (n.) See Exosmose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The excess of salt causes exosmosis resulting in death of the fishes.
  • (2) pCMPS specifically increases the hydraulic resistance to exosmosis, but does not influence endosmosis.
  • (3) By contrast, nonyltriethylammonium (C9), a blocking agent of K+ channels, increases the hydraulic resistance to endosmosis, but does not affect that to exosmosis.
  • (4) A step change can hence be assumed when modeling exosmosis for determining the lymphocyte membrane permeability.

Exostosis


Definition:

  • (n.) Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone.
  • (n.) A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The operation revealed a necrotic focus of the patellar tendon in 21 cases, the retinaculum was thick and adherent in 16 patients and an exostosis of the patellar insertion was seen in two cases.
  • (2) An unusual case of severe palatal fibromas and concomitant vestibular exostosis in a 36-year-old woman is presented.
  • (3) Malignant degeneration to chondrosarcoma occurred in the left hemipelvis of a patient with multiple hereditary exostosis.
  • (4) A 58-year-old woman with hereditary multiple exostoses had slowly progressive myelopathy due to a vertebral exostosis that compressed the spinal cord at T1-2.
  • (5) Comparative studies are being conducted on hereditary multiple exostosis in man and the horse.
  • (6) Thoracotomy was done to remove the tumor and the histological diagnosis was exostosis.
  • (7) This case of pneumothorax caused by an exostosis lacerating the lung is rare.
  • (8) The various entities of coronoid process osteochondroma, osteoma, exostosis, hypertrophy and developmental anomaly, all producing a similar picture of coronoid process enlargement are discussed.
  • (9) The incidence of subungual exostosis accounted for 4.6% of all bone tumor.
  • (10) Multiple exostosis and Dyschondroplasia (Ollier's disease) are two Osteochondrodysplasia with abnormal cartilagenous growth which hinder growth of the long bones especially.
  • (11) The operative specimens demonstrated fusion of the rudimentary first rib to the second rib, with compression of the subclavian artery by a large first-rib exostosis.
  • (12) The clinical experience of a patient with a large exostosis who had a chief complaint of difficulty in opening the mouth is reported.
  • (13) A case arising from a solitary osteocartilagenous exostosis is presented and the literature is reviewed and discussed.
  • (14) Surgical resection of any underlying exostosis may be required for hard or soft corns or "pump bumps," which are caused by pressure from the shoe's heel.
  • (15) Thirty of 50 patients with hereditary multiple exostosis developed significant deformities of the arm in one extremity.
  • (16) A follow-up of up to 9 years would indicate that post-stenotic dilatation of mild or moderate degree is adequately treated by resection of the cervical rib and exostosis on first rib.
  • (17) A hitherto undescribed group of lesions consisting of cystic bony lesions, exostosis, fibromatous lesion, unilateral tonsillar hypertrophy, epidermoid cyst (cholesteatoma) and hyperplasia of the mandible confined to the left side of the face is reported.
  • (18) A young man had hereditary sensory radicular neuropathy with relapsing ulcer of the foot and, in addition to previously known clinical features, osteoarthropathy with hallux valgus, metatarsus primus varus, exostosis, and pes planus.
  • (19) We have studied three children with cutaneous (epidermal nevi), subcutaneous (lipomas, plantar skin thickening), vascular (hemangioma, lymphangioma), skeletal (osteoma, exostosis, localized hypertrophy), and neurological (hydrocephaly, lissencephaly, partial agenesis of the corpus callosum) developmental defects associated with the Proteus syndrome and related hamartoneoplastic conditions.
  • (20) Two cases of post-traumatic transection of the popliteal artery in patients with exostosis of the lower extremities are reported.

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