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Enthesis Entesopathy


~ ENTHESIOPHYTE  med> PLANT or SHOOT lie
                      BONY OUTGROWTH
     see> OSTEOPHYTE or EXOSTOSIS
     id+ an imPLANT between a TENDON and a BONE
     note STRONG TENDONS PULLING ON
          THEIR BONY INSERTION MAY INDUCE
     GROWTH OF PERIOSTEAL CONNECTIVE TISSUE or
              PERIOSTIUM TO FORM AN EXOSTOSIS
~ ENTHESIS    see> THESIS for PUT FORTH
              INSERT  IMPLANT
              med> USE OF ARTIFICIAL MATERIALS AS
                   imPLANTs or PROSTHESIS
~ ENTHESITIS  INFLAMED INSERTION IMPLANTATION POINT
~ ENTHESOPATHY  or CONSITUTIONAL DISORDER OF
                TENDON imPLANTATIONS or ATTACHMENTS
     TO THE BONES as in EXOSTOSIS MULTIPLEX
     note one gene mutation causing
     MULPIPLE EXOSTOSES or EXOSTOSIS MULTIPLEX
     not entirely the result of mechanical forces
     rather these are CARTILAGE CAPPED HAMARTOMAS or
     ABNORMAL ADMIXTURES OF NORMAL APPEARING TISSUES
     THAT OFTEN EVOLVE INTO CANCER OR NEOPLASIA or
             OSTEOCHONDROSARCOMA
~ ENTHIASIS  INDENT or DENT as in
             med> DEPRESSED SKULL FRACTURE
  note  PROSTHESIS
  med>  ARTIFICIAL MATERIALS TO REPLACE
        BODY PARTS
  biol> ENTHESIS ARE THOSE BONE SITES WHERE
        MUSCLES or TENDONS INSERT
  myth> see> THETIS   re SHE HELD TIGHT TO 
        HER SON'S ACHILES TENDON

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