Meanings
nounmollities ossium (uncountable)
- archaicuncountablemedicineosteomalacia
Origin
- Latinmollitiēs ossium“softness of the bones”
- Englishmollities ossium
Borrowed from Latin mollitiēs ossium (“softness of the bones”).
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