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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

Periarticular ringbone is characterized by exostoses which are situated on the sides of the phalanges and not extending around to the anterior part of the joint.

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

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)

Bony formations occur in muscles and tendons, especially at their points of attachment to the skeleton, and are known as false exostoses; they are described with the diseases of muscles.

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

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)