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ELASTOSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elastosis mean?
• ELASTOSIS (noun)
The noun ELASTOSIS has 1 sense:
1. breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue)
Familiarity information: ELASTOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("elastosis" is a kind of...):
physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)
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