osteoporosis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture. countable,uncountable

词形变化

osteoporoses plural

词源

From Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + Ancient Greek πώρωσις (pṓrōsis, “petrification, callousness”), from Ancient Greek πῶρος (pôros, “tuff, a porous type of rock”). By surface analysis, osteo- + pore + -osis.
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