单词 | malacosteon |
释义 | malacosteonn. Medicine. Now rare. Originally: any of various conditions causing softening (demineralization) or destruction of bone. Later: spec. osteomalacia. Cf. mollities ossium n. at mollities n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > softening osteomalacia1790 malacosteon1801 1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 50 In..cases where malacosteon has made such dreadful ravages in the female constitution. 1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 574 The disease is called Mollities Ossium, Malacosteon, or Osteomalacia. 1985 M. F. Myles Textbk. Midwives (ed. 10) xxiii. 406 (heading) Osteomalacic or malacosteon pelvis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1801 |
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