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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)play

  Familiarity information: ELASTOSIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ELASTOSIS (noun)


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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