rider's bone
Medicine
noun
Heterotopic ossification involving the tendon of the adductor longus muscle of the thigh, occurring chiefly in those who frequently ride horses; an instance of this.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in American Journal of the Medical Sciences. After German Reiterknochen.
- dissimilation
- dissimilatory
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- dissimulation
- dissimulator
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- dissociate
- dissociated personality
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- dissolubility
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- dissolution of the monasteries