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porotic

porotic adjective: having or relating to porosis.

Adjective

porotic (not comparable)

  1. Having or relating to porosis.
    • In the bibliometric survey, the overwhelming majority of stress indicator studies focused on one or more of the following: porotic hyperostosis (PH, usually in the orbital roofs but sometimes also in the cranial vault), […] For PH (and for porotic bony alterations in general), care needs to be...2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 29

Noun

porotic (plural porotics)

  1. One who has porosis.

Forms of porotic

pluralporotics

Origin of porotic

From porosis + -tic.

Questions about porotic

What does porotic mean?
Porotic means having or relating to porosis.
What part of speech is porotic?
Porotic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near porotic in the dictionary

  1. porosomes
  2. porostele
  3. porosteles
  4. porotaxic
  5. porotaxy
  6. porotic
  7. porotics
  8. porotiti
  9. porotta
  10. porottas
  11. porotype

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