Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, and three other centers found that defects in a gene that's sensitive to hormones can lead to progressive osseous heteroplasia, or POH.
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Osseous
//ˈɒsi.əs//
Synonyms for "osseous" (20 found)
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16 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
33 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عَظْمِيّ adj (relating to bone)
Belarusian
2 entries- касцявы́ adj (relating to bone)
- касцяны́ adj (relating to bone)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ко́стен adj (relating to bone)
Catalan
1 entries- ossi adj (relating to bone)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 骨的 adj (relating to bone)
Czech
1 entries- kostní adj (relating to bone)
Dutch
3 entries- been adj (relating to bone)
- benig adj (relating to bone)
- knokig adj (relating to bone)
Finnish
2 entries- luinen adj (relating to bone)
- luu adj (relating to bone)
French
1 entries- osseux adj (relating to bone)
German
2 entries- Knochen adj (relating to bone)
- knöchern adj (relating to bone)
Ido
1 entries- ostala adj (relating to bone)
Italian
1 entries- osseo adj (relating to bone)
Kazakh
1 entries- сүйектік adj (relating to bone)
Latin
1 entries- osseus adj (relating to bone)
Macedonian
1 entries- коскен adj (relating to bone)
Persian
1 entries- استخوانی adj (relating to bone)
Polish
1 entries- kostny adj (relating to bone)
Portuguese
1 entries- ósseo adj (relating to bone)
Romanian
1 entries- osos adj (relating to bone)
Russian
2 entries- ко́стный adj (relating to bone)
- костяно́й adj (relating to bone)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kòštan adj (relating to bone)
- ко̀штан adj (relating to bone)
Slovak
1 entries- kostný adj (relating to bone)
Slovene
1 entries- kosten adj (relating to bone)
Spanish
1 entries- óseo adj (relating to bone)
Ukrainian
2 entries- кісткови́й adj (relating to bone)
- кістяни́й adj (relating to bone)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
One of Hecker's successors at the honest task of baking was Peter M. Baldwin, known to all as the 'General' — a tall, spare, osseous sort of man, built on the large Western plan, and thought to resemble Andrew Jackson.
Source: wiktionary
It could be some kind of inception based advertising campaign… make people feel vulnerable so that they want to summon some osseous defenders?
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.