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osteodystrophy

n. (context medicine English) Any abnormal or defective development of a bone

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osteodystrophy

n. defective bone development; usually attributable to renal disease or to disturbances in calcium and phosphorus metabolism

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Osteodystrophy

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.

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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.