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Defective bone development
Answer for the clue "Defective bone development ", 14 letters:
osteodystrophy
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. defective bone development; usually attributable to renal disease or to disturbances in calcium and phosphorus metabolism
Wikipedia
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Osteodystrophy is a general term for a dystrophic growth of the bone. It is defective bone development that is usually attributable to renal disease or to disturbances in calcium and phosphorus metabolism . One form is renal osteodystrophy .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) Any abnormal or defective development of a bone
Usage examples of osteodystrophy.
They were all suffering from something called hypertrophic pulmonary osteodystrophy, which is what you would get if you were breathing a lot of abrasive ash—and they must have been breathing a lot of it because the ash was feet thick for hundreds of miles.