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brittle bone disease
(redirected from Brittle Bone Syndrome)

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brittle bone disease
n
(Medicine / Pathology) the nontechnical name for osteogenesis imperfecta
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brittle bone disease
n (= osteoporosis)Osteoporose f; (= osteogenesis)abnorme Knochenbrüchigkeit, mangelhafte Knochenbildung


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This so-called brittle bone syndrome typically reveals itself early in life: The patients' mean age at first fractures is 8 months.
And at my age I am on the look-out for osteoporosis or brittle bone syndrome, but my doctors have advised me that because of my pill cocktail I won't need any HRT.
 
 
 
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