Meanings
- historicaluncountablemedicinePaget's disease of bone.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From osteitis (“inflammation of bone”) + Latin dēfōrmāns (“deforming”). Named so because the disease was wrongly thought to be an inflammation of bones.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
osteitis deformans. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/osteitis%20deformans
“osteitis deformans.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/osteitis%20deformans. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “osteitis deformans,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/osteitis%20deformans.
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