osteomalacian.

1790 Med. Commentaries 5 19 He [sc. Dr. Ekman] employs the generic name of Osteomalacia, as none of the others in use sufficiently distinguish this disease from other affections of the solids.

1825 W. Cumin in Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 23 19 Osteo-malakia. I must crave indulgence for the adoption of this term, to which I have been induced by the existing deficiency of a generic word capable of denoting both rickets and mollities ossium.

1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 249 (note) The genus softening of bones, he [sc. Dr. Cumin] proposes to call Osteo-malakia, and he divides it into two species.

1845 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 406 An analysis..of the bones of a man..who died from osteomalacia.

1873 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 2 148 As to osteomalacia, I must not omit to cite the astonishing examples of skulls deformed by it.

1920 Glasgow Herald 19 Apr. 7 How tremendously the osteomalacia has increased during this last winter.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xvii. 462 The symptoms of osteomalacia or mollities ossium usually appear in the later months of pregnancy in a woman who has already had several children.

1971 Nature 5 Feb. 409/2 If rickets were widespread in Neanderthal man, osteomalacia would occur in the adult female pelvis, making parturition exceptionally difficult.

1988 Pract. Health Spring 39/2 If black and Asian people also have diets which are low in Vitamin D, they are particularly at risk of bone problems like childhood rickets or its adult equivalent, osteomalacia.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 328 In osteomalacial bones [Ger. in osteomalacischen Knochen].

1907 C. von Noorden et al. Metabolism & Pract. Med. III. 1266 The chemical composition of osteomalacial bone..excludes the possibility of lactic acid.