A pathological condition characterized by abnormal bone formation or ossification within blood vessels or surrounding vascular tissue.
From Greek 'angion' (vessel) + 'osteon' (bone) + 'osis' (condition). This rare medical term combines vascular and skeletal terminology to describe calcification within vessels.
When blood vessels start turning into bone-like material, that's angiosteosis—it's one of the body's strange misfires where the wrong tissue type tries to form in the wrong place!
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