osteitis deformans

English

Etymology

From osteitis (“inflammation of bone”) +‎ Latin dēfōrmāns (“deforming”). Named so because the disease was wrongly thought to be an inflammation of bones.

Noun

osteitis deformans (uncountable)

  1. (pathology, historical) Paget's disease of bone.
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