Pathol. [f. L. eburnus made of ivory + -ATION.] ‘The act or process of becoming hard and dense like ivory’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). So also Eburnated ppl. a.
1840. R. Liston, Elem. Surg., 83. Eburnation of the surfaces of the Bones.
1861. Bumstead, Ven. Dis. (1879), 616. This tendency to eburnation and thickening of the osseous tissue is not confined to the part first affected.
1870. Holmes, Surgery (ed. 2), III. 712. A fractured rachitic ‘eburnated’ bone.
