enchondral

Updated: May 22, 2025

The nodules or "adventitious joints" were the result of imperfect ossification, or, in other words, of motion before ossification was completed. Analogous to rachitis is achondroplasia, or the so called fetal rickets a disease in which deformity results from an arrest, absence, or perversion of the normal process of enchondral ossification.

George M. (George Milbrey) Gould - Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine