Paget's disease

Pag·et's disease  (pjts)

n.

1. A disease, occurring chiefly in old age, in which the bones become enlarged and weakened, often resulting in fracture or deformation.

2. A form of breast cancer affecting the areola and nipple.

3. A skin cancer arising from apocrine sweat glands.

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[After Sir James Paget.]

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Paget's disease [ˈpædʒɪts]

n

1. (Medicine / Pathology) Also called osteitis deformans a chronic disease of the bones characterized by inflammation and deformation

2. (Medicine / Pathology) Also called Paget's cancer cancer of the nipple and surrounding tissue

[named after Sir James Paget (1814-99), British surgeon and pathologist, who described these diseases]

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Paget's disease  (pjts)

1. A disease, occurring chiefly in the elderly, in which the bones become enlarged and weakened, often resulting in fracture or deformity.

2. A breast cancer manifested by inflammatory changes of the nipple and surrounding skin.

Thesaurus

Noun

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Paget's disease - a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities osteitis deformans osteitis - inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration