osteitis deformans

1. 1.

   a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities

   SynonymsPaget's disease

   Broaderosteitis

Questions about osteitis deformans

What does osteitis deformans mean?

osteitis deformans means "a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities".

What is another word for osteitis deformans?

Close synonyms include Paget's disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is osteitis deformans a common word?

osteitis deformans is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.