A condition involving hardening or abnormal bone formation in the skull, or the fusion of skull bones.
From cranio- + -ostosis (Greek osteon, bone + -osis, condition). Medical term describing pathological bone changes in the skull.
Craniostosis conditions show how bone is living tissue—it doesn't stop changing after birth, and sometimes that remodeling goes wrong, requiring surgical correction.
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