osteomalacia

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A softening of adult bones due to inadequate mineralization; the adult equivalent of rickets.

   “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.”