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n.
an abnormal increase in the density of bone, as a result of poor blood supply, chronic infection, or tumour. The affected bone is more opaque to X-rays than normal bone. See also osteopetrosis.
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os·teo·scle·ro·sis (os″te-o-sklə-roґsis) [osteo- + sclerosis] the hardening or abnormal density of bone, as in eburnation and condensing osteitis. osteosclerotic adjMedical dictionary. 2011.