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• osteo-malacia

語源

From osteo- +‎ malacia.

名詞

osteomalacia (countable and uncountable, plural osteomalacias)

1. (medicine) A softening of adult bones due to inadequate mineralization; the adult equivalent of rickets.
   • 2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27:

     In some skeletons from a 19th-century hospital site in The Netherlands, macroscopic changes suggestive of osteomalacia were present, but firm diagnosis required microscopic study of a bone sample to verify defective mineralization at the microstructural level.

関連する語

• osteomalacic