glass bone disease

English

Alternative forms

• glass-bone disease

Noun

glass bone disease (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Synonym of osteogenesis imperfecta
   • 2005, Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, Penguin (→ISBN)

     For this reason it is often known as 'glass bone disease' The mutations have their devastating effects because of the hierarchical nature in which collagens are organised.

   • 2013, Dr. Joe Rozencwajg NMD., Dynamic Gemmotherapy: Integrative Embryonic Phytotherapie, Lulu Press, Inc (→ISBN)

     […] and creating a better quality bone tissue: it is used in fractures, osteoporosis and is credited as having an action in osteopsatyrosis (glass bone disease) where it could prevent the almost spontaneous fractures characteristic of this disease.