Osteomalacia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A disease occurring mostly in adult women that results from a deficiency in vitamin D or calcium and is characterized by a softening of the bones with accompanying pain and weakness.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A softening of adult bones due to inadequate mineralization; the adult equivalent of rickets
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In pathology, a disease, most frequent in women, but also occurring in men, in which there is progressive disappearance of the earthy salts from the bones, which in consequence become soft and misshapen. Also called malacosteon, and mollities ossium.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    malacia   
    Variant
    malacia   
     
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