paget's disease

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

   Synonymsosteitis deformans

   Broaderosteitis

Questions about paget's disease

What does paget's disease mean?

paget's disease 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 paget's disease?

Close synonyms include osteitis deformans. 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 paget's disease a common word?

paget's disease 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.