Osteoporosis

//ˌɒstiəʊpəˈɹəʊsɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    abnormal loss of bony tissue resulting in fragile porous bones attributable to a lack of calcium; most common in postmenopausal women wordnet

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"My grandfather suffers from osteoporosis."

Etymology

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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