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单词 osteoporosis
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osteoporosisn.

Brit. /ˌɒstɪəʊpəˈrəʊsɪs/, U.S. /ˈˌɑstioʊpəˈroʊsəs/
Inflections: Plural osteoporoses.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Osteoporosis.
Etymology: < German Osteoporosis (now Osteoporose ) (A. L. Richter Organischen Knochenkrankheiten (1839) viii. 122) < French ostéoporose (J. G. C. F. M. Lobstein Traité de l'anat. pathol. (1833) II. 102) < ostéo- osteo- comb. form + pore pore n.1 + -ose -osis suffix.French ostéoporose in the sense éburnation eburnation n. is recorded in 1832; compare porosis n.1 A. L. Richter also cites the Greek verb πωροῦν to form a callus.
1. Medicine. Rarefaction of bone; spec. reduction in the density (mass per unit volume) of normally mineralized bone, commonly seen in postmenopausal women and the elderly; any condition characterized by this.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > decay or erosion
caries1634
cariosity1638
spina ventosa1684
cariousness1818
osteoporosis1841
rarefaction1850
osteolysis1875
osteitis fibrosa1910
porosis1926
osteodystrophia fibrosa1928
osteodystrophy1930
1841 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 12 158 Osteoporosis, or porosity of bone, is formed by a loosening of the tissue, and results not from any absorption of the mass, but purely from an expansive activity.
1850 C. H. Moore tr. C. von Rokitansky Man. Pathol. Anat. III. ix. 173 A large class of osteoporoses is occasioned by atrophy of the bone.
1871 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Feb. 133/2 The disease..had been variously described as eccentric atrophy of the bone by Curling, osteoporosis by Rokitansky, and fatty degeneration of bone by Paget.
1872 G. R. Cutter tr. H. Frey Microscope & Microsc. Technol. 310 The liquefying bone tissue frequently shows excavated borders, as if gnawed out. If such a condition occurs at a later period as an abnormal process, we have the so-called osteoporosis.
1896 D. MacAlister & H. W. Cattell tr. E. Ziegler Pathol. Anat. I. 143 If the compact osseous tissue becomes porous from the widening of the Haversian canals, the condition is termed osteoporosis.
1949 New Biol. 6 84 If there is a serious defect in the calcium or phosphate intake, the bones may become rarified and weakened (osteoporosis).
1961 C. S. Lewis Lett. to Malcolm iii. 30 Since the osteoporosis I can hardly kneel at all in most places.
1963 Clin. Orthopaedics No. 30. 201/1 Osteoporoses of diverse etiology are though to have a pathogenesis similar to bone changes in Cushing's syndrome.
1991 Independent 14 Nov. 9/5 Clinical studies have shown that the drug [etidronate disodium] can increase bone mass in women with vertebral osteoporosis.
2. Physical Anthropology and Pathology. More fully symmetric osteoporosis or symmetrical osteoporosis. = porotic hyperostosis n. at porotic adj.2 Compounds.
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1914 A. Hrdlička in Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 61 xviii. 58 The only conclusion the writer can reach in regard to this symmetric osteoporosis is that it represents a process not well known in the pathology of the white race.
1929 Arch. Pathol. 7 850 A symmetrical osteoporosis on the outer surface of the skull, chiefly of the parietal and frontal bones,..is often seen in skulls of American Indians.
1967 Amer. Antiq. 32 503/1 This condition has been erroneously referred to as an ‘osteoporosis’ when it actually is a ‘hyperostosis’.
1993 Curr. Anthropol. 34 280/1 He identified and described a pathology very common among tropical pre-Columbian populations called symmetrical osteoporosis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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