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noun
Paget's disease of bone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Paget's disease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: osteitis
History
From osteitis (“inflammation of bone”) + Latin dēfōrmāns (“deforming”). Named so because the disease was wrongly thought to be an inflammation of bones.
