hypomineralization

noun

Insufficient mineralization

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Meanings

nounhypomineralization (countable and uncountable, plural hypomineralizations)

plural hypomineralizations

  1. countableuncountableInsufficient mineralization

    To compare the model predictions to the phenotype of bone disorders known to result in abnormal mineralization, we examined hypomineralization in osteomalacia and hypermineralization in osteogenesis imperfecta.

    2015 August 21, Svetlana V. Komarova et al., “Mathematical model for bone mineralization”, in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, volume 3, →DOI

Origin

From hypo- + mineralization.

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