osteoporosis

A disease characterized by a decrease in bone mass and density, occurring especially in postmenopausal women, resulting in a predisposition to fractures.

Morbid absorption of bone proceeding from the Haversian canals, so that it becomes abnormally porous.

An absorption of bone so that the bone tissue becomes unusually porous. It occurs especially in elderly men and postmenopausal women, and predisposes the elderly to fractures of the bones.

A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture.

abnormal loss of bony tissue resulting in fragile porous bones attributable to a lack of calcium; most common in postmenopausal women