释义 |
eburnation Pathol.|ɪbɜːˈneɪʃən| [f. L. eburnus made of ivory + -ation.] ‘The act or process of becoming hard and dense like ivory’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). So also eburnated ppl. a.
1840Liston Surgery 83 Eburnation of the surfaces of the Bones. 1861Bumstead Ven. Dis. (1879) 616 This tendency to eburnation and thickening of the osseous tissue is not confined to the part first affected. 1870Holmes Surgery (ed. 2) III. 712 A fractured rachitic ‘eburnated’ bone. |