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Erichsen mentions a young man of twenty-one with 15 groups of symmetric exostoses in various portions of the body; they were spongy or cancellous in nature.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The fighting knobs mentioned above, are very interesting, large exostoses on one of the wrist-bones of either wing; they were undoubtedly covered with a thick, callous skin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

Symptomatology.—Where a visible exostosis exists, the presence of spavin is easily detected, yet exostoses that extend over large areas may constitute cause for serious trouble and still be difficult of detection.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor

With the horse, there seems hardly a doubt that exostoses on the legs, caused by too much travelling on hard roads, are inherited.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles

The camel was affected with rickets and the aurochs had multiple exostoses or bony tumors.

From The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)