A medical condition involving abnormal bone formation or hardening within or beneath the skin tissue.
From Greek 'derma' (skin) + 'ostosis' (bone formation). Medical term describing pathological ossification in dermal tissues.
Dermostosis is rare but remarkable—it's when your body mistakes soft skin tissue for bone and starts converting it, similar to what happens in the disease heterotopic ossification where muscles can literally turn into bone.
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