OSTEOMALACIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does osteomalacia mean? 

• OSTEOMALACIA (noun)
  The noun OSTEOMALACIA has 1 sense:

1. abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D

  Familiarity information: OSTEOMALACIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OSTEOMALACIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("osteomalacia" is a kind of...):

malacia (a state of abnormal softening of tissue)

Meronyms (parts of "osteomalacia"):

demineralisation; demineralization (abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone))

 Context examples 

It is associated with the presence of a paraneoplastic syndrome called osteogenic osteomalacia.

(Phosphaturic Mesenchymal Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

It is overexpressed in oncogenic hypophosphatemic osteomalacia (OHO).

(FGF23 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

In adults, this condition is called osteomalacia.

(Childhood Rickets, NCI Dictionary)

A group of disorders that affect the bones secondary to increased levels of minerals or deficient levels of minerals such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and vitamin D. Representative examples are osteomalacia, osteoporosis, and Paget disease.

(Metabolic Bone Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called osteomalacia.

(Adult rickets, NCI Dictionary)

The signs and symptoms vary significantly and include death in utero, failure to thrive, premature loss of deciduous teeth, early loss of the adult dentition, hypercalcemia, osteomalacia, skeletal defects, renal stones, and movement disorders.

(Hypophosphatasia, NCI Thesaurus)