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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 bony exostoses on the legs, caused by too much travelling on hard roads, are inherited.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles

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)

Unlike the condition known as multiple cartilaginous exostoses, it is a malignant disease.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

Hartmann shows two cases of multiple exostoses, both in males, and universally distributed over the body.

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