Term: fibrous dysplasia of bone: a disturbance in which bone that is undergoing lysis is replaced by an abnormal proliferation of fibrous tissue resulting in bone lesions or skin lesions
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: giro: a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office → 0
Candidate hypernym: handspike: a metal bar (or length of pipe) used as a lever → 0
Candidate hypernym: nuclear medicine: the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells → 0
Candidate hypernym: grill: a framework of metal bars used as a partition or a grate → 0
Candidate hypernym: call forwarding: lets you transfer your incoming calls to any telephone that you can dial direct → 0
Candidate hypernym: gauge: the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train → 0
Candidate hypernym: rockers: originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers → 0
Candidate hypernym: bletilla striata: Japanese orchid with white-striped leaves and slender erect racemes of rose to magenta flowers; often cultivated; sometimes placed in genus Bletia → 0
Candidate hypernym: oil refinery: a refinery for petroleum → 0
Candidate hypernym: poon: wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars → 0