enchondrosis
(ɛnkɒnˈdrəʊsɪs)
[f. enchondroma + -osis.]
A chondroma arising from cartilage.
| 1871 T. H. Green Introd. Path. xvii. 132 The enchondromata must for the most part be regarded as innocent growths. Those homologous forms which originate from cartilage, and have been called ‘Enchondroses’, differ in all respects from the heterologous. 1908 Practitioner Dec. 763 On the inner aspect of the second toe there is an enchondrosis. 1967 R. A. Willis Path. Tumours (ed. 4) xliii. 686 A once prevalent idea that multiple enchondroses and multiple exostoses are only different varieties of one disease has been discarded. |