glass bone disease

alternative glass-bone disease

1. colloquialuncountableSynonym of osteogenesis imperfecta.

   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.

   2005, Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, Penguin, →ISBN

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   […] 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.

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

   Synonyms: osteogenesis imperfecta