hyperostosis

From hyper- +‎ ostosis.

hyperostosis (plural hyperostoses)

1. (medicine) An excessive growth or thickening of bone.
   • 2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 29:

     In the bibliometric survey, the overwhelming majority of stress indicator studies focused on one or more of the following: porotic hyperostosis (PH, usually in the orbital roofs but sometimes also in the cranial vault), […]

• diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis

• ectostosis, endostosis
• exostosis
• osteosis