What is the difference between ivory and eburnation?
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(uncountable) The hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
A creamy white colour, the colour of ivory.
Something made from or resembling ivory.
(collective singular or in plural) The teeth.
(collective singular or in plural) The keys of a piano.
(slang) A white person.
Made of ivory.
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, title= Resembling or having the colour of ivory.
Degenerative process of bone occurring at sites of articular cartilage erosion commonly found in patients with osteoarthritis. Sub-chondral bone responds to increased friction by generating reactive, ivory-like, dense bone at the site of erosion.
(wikipedia eburnation)
Eburnation is a related term of ivory.
As nouns the difference between ivory and eburnation
is that ivory is the hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals while eburnation is degenerative process of bone occurring at sites of articular cartilage erosion commonly found in patients with osteoarthritis. Sub-chondral bone responds to increased friction by generating reactive, ivory-like, dense bone at the site of erosion.As an adjective ivory
is made of ivory.ivory
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(wikipedia ivory)Noun
See also
* GalalithAdjective
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
Derived terms
* ivory tower * ivory black * Ivory Coast * ivory gull * ivory nut * ivory palm * ivory-billed woodpecker * ivory-nut palm * ivory shell * ivory-white * vegetable ivorySee also
* odontolite * scrimshaw * whalebone *eburnation
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(en noun)References
*Osteoarthritis