Pathol. [ad. mod.L. cariōsitāt-em, f. cariōsus rotten, carious.] Carious state or condition; a carious formation.
1638. A. Read, Chirurg., xviii. 130. Moist medicaments are not to bee applied to bones, because they cause cariositie.
1746. Amyand, in Phil. Trans., XLIV. 199. A … Cariosity in the Body of the Os Humeri.
