osteological

Researchers such as Meyer (2016), for instance, warn against precise diagnoses of specific vitamin-related deficiencies in light of the ways that nutritional deficiency and metabolic disease can elicit similar osteological responses (or none at all) and the fact that these two conditions are often found together in human populations.

2023, Anne L. Grauer, “Introduction” (chapter 1), in The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, page 7