osteomalacia

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A softening of adult bones due to inadequate mineralization; the adult equivalent of rickets. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

osteomalacias plural osteo-malacia alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁
Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon)der.
English osteo-
English malacia
English osteomalacia
From osteo- + malacia.
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