Noun: osteomalacia
| Singular | osteomalacia |
| Plural | osteomalacias |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2023, Simon Mays, “The Macroscopic Study of Human Skeletal Paleopathology” (chapter 2), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 27:]
Nouns inflected like osteomalacia
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁
3. Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon)der.
4. English osteo-
5. English malacia
6. English osteomalacia
7. From osteo- + malacia.
Verbs referencing "osteomalacia"
Finnish Nouns
osteomalasia, Polish Nouns
osteomalacja.