See Also: osteocystoma(medicine)
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hovel(1) (iou)



hovel noun1. LME.
[Perh. of Low German origin.]
An open shed or an outhouse used for sheltering cattle, storing grain, etc. Now chiefly dial. LME.
b. A stack of corn, a heap of hay, etc. Now dial. L16.
A simple, roughly constructed, or (esp.) squalid dwelling. LME.
Architecture. A canopied niche for a statue or Other image. Long obsolete exc. Hist. LME.
A conical construction enclosing a kiln. E19.

osteocystoma (medicine)


osteocystoma -->
solitary bone cyst


A unilocular cyst containing serous fluid and lined with a thin layer of connective tissue, occurring usually in the shaft of a long bone in a child.

Synonym: idiopathic bone cavity, osteocystoma, simple bone cyst, traumatic bone cyst, unicameral bone cyst.