osteoporosis

English

Etymology

From osteo- +‎ porosis.

Noun

Wikipedia osteoporosis (plural osteoporoses)

1. (pathology) A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture.

Derived terms

• osteoporotic

Translations

bone disease

Chinese: Mandarin: 骨質疏鬆 (zh), 骨质疏松 (zh) (gǔzhíshūsōng) Czech: osteoporóza (cs) f. Dutch: botontkalking (nl), osteoporose (nl) Finnish: osteoporoosi (fi), luukato (fi) French: ostéoporose (fr) f. German: Osteoporose (de) f. Irish: oistéapóróis (ga) f. Japanese: 骨粗鬆症 (ja) (こつそしょうしょう, kotsusoshōshō)

Korean: 골다공증 (ko) (goldagongjeung) (骨多孔症 (ko)) Polish: osteoporoza (pl) f. Portuguese: osteoporose (pt) f. Russian: остеопороз (ru) (osteoporóz) m. Spanish: osteoporosis (es) f. Swedish: benskörhet (sv) c., osteoporos (sv) c., urkalkning (sv) c. Turkish: osteoporoz (tr), kemik erimesi (tr) Vietnamese: chứng loãng xương (vi)