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Definition: Osteoporosis |
OsteoporosisNoun1. Abnormal loss of bony tissue resulting in fragile porous bones attributable to a lack of calcium; most common in postmenopausal women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Osteoporosis \Os`te*o*po*ro"sis\, noun. [NL.; osteo- Greek expression pore.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Health | Reduction of bone mass without alteration in the composition of bone, leading to fractures. Primary osteoporosis can be of two major types: postmenopausal osteoporosis and age-related (or senile) osteoporosis. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In some extreme cases osteoporosis is life threatening, and limits those that suffer by it to a life in wheelchair. When the condition is this bad, spine disorders are common, as the bone of the spine is no longer able to withstand the weight of the torso and head. Primary osteoporosis is usually related only to increasing age and decreasing bone mass. As we age, many changes occur in our body, physically, not for the better.
Osteoporosis is a common side effect of severe eating disorders eg.anorexia, extreme and lengthy 'crash-dieting' attempts at weight loss, and weight-loss surgery. In these cases, the cause is an inadequate dietary intake of calcium and a deficit in basic nutrition over a long period of time.
Osteoporosis cannot be reversed, but once it is detected the progress of the disease can be slowed or halted by a very high intake of calcium and other minerals, such as Vitamin D. Daily proper dietary nutrition plays an important role. Keep in mind, caffeine can reduce calcium levels by causing diuresis. Excessive alcohol can decrease ostereoblast function.
About 44 millions Americans are threatened by osteoporosis. On top of that, it is reponsible for 1.5 millions fractures annually, concentrating directly on the vertebrae, hip, and wrist. About 50% of women and 25% of men are expected to have some kind of osteoporosis experience in their lifetime. So how much has it costed America to treat?? In 2001 alone, it was estimated at 17 billions was spent by hospitals and nursing homes indirectly. Fractures related to osteoporosis seem to be more common in Caucasians and Asians than other racial backgrounds. And if you are a woman, you are 4 times to be more at risk.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Osteoporosis."
Crosswords: Osteoporosis |
| English words defined with "osteoporosis": Durabolin ♦ hormone replacement therapy, hormone-replacement therapy, HRT, hypercalcinuria, hypercalciuria, hyperparathyroidism ♦ Kabolin ♦ nandrolone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "osteoporosis": Absorptiometry, Photon, Alendronate, alendronate sodium ♦ Bone Remodeling ♦ Calcium, Dietary ♦ Estrogen Replacement Therapy ♦ Fosamax ♦ involutional osteoporosis ♦ Osteoporosis, Postmenopausal ♦ Phosphorus, Dietary ♦ Raloxifene ♦ senile osteoporosis ♦ type 2 osteoporosis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Osteoporosis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (osteoporosis), Spanish (osteoporosis). |
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 | STAND TALL in the years to come. : Fight osteoporosis, the bone-thinning disease that occurs with age. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Research advances in osteoporosis. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Health | An increased risk of osteoporosis. (references) | |
HRT and ERT reduce the risk of osteoporosis. (references) | ||
These include heart disease, stroke, and osteoporosis. (references) | ||
Business | Numerous reports proving calcium's preventative effect on osteoporosis have been published, boosting market demand and value. (references) | |
With the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain predicting that in-store pharmacy testing will become increasingly popular, opportunities will exist for manufacturers of tests for diabetes, osteoporosis, H. Pylori, and cholesterol. (references) | ||
The hospital's current success is at least partially attributable to its ability to identify with women's health concerns and supply them with excellent services including comprehensive OB/GYN care, testing for the early detection of breast cancer, reproductive health screening and therapy, psychological support and counseling, ultrasound, osteoporosis screening and prevention programs, dietician services, hormone replacement therapy, bone density tests, fitness evaluation, and day surgery. (references) | ||
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Ann Richards | I know that my alcoholism affected osteoporosis. And I was also a smoker. Smoking is very bad for your bones. So absolutely it is a factor in my osteoporosis. |
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| "Osteoporosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Osteoporosis" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 87 | 35,390 |
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Expressions using "osteoporosis": involutional osteoporosis ♦ senile osteoporosis ♦ type 2 osteoporosis. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "osteoporosis": osteoporosis-pseudoglioma. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Danish | osteoporosis, osteoporose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | osteoporose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vanhuksen osteoporoosi (involutional osteoporosis, senile osteoporosis, type 2 osteoporosis), menopaussiin liittyvä osteoporoosi (postmenopausal osteoporosis, type 1 osteoporosis), ikään liittyvä osteoporoosi (involutional osteoporosis, senile osteoporosis, type 2 osteoporosis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ostéoporose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Osteoporose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οστεοπόρωση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | osteoporosi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 骨粗鬆症 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "つそしょうしょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osteoporosisay osteoporose. (various references) osteoporoza. (various references) osteoporosis. (various references) โรคกระ"ูกพรุน. (various references) остеопороз. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Osteoporosis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: oesteoporosis, osteoparosis, osteoperosis, osteophrosis, osteopirosis, osteoporisis, osteporosis, osteroporosis, ostioporosis. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "osteoporosis" (pronounced ô'stēÄ'perō"si's) |
| 4 | -ō" s i' s | asbestosis, endometriosis, osmosis. |
| 3 | -s i' s | basis, Cassis, electrophoresis, emphasis, lexis, lysis, oasis, paralysis, parenthesis, pertussis, praxis, Pyxis, sepsis, Telesis. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-o-o-o-p-r-s-s-s-t" | |
-4 letters: isotopes, oospores, osteosis, persists, prosiest, prossies, prosties, reposits, ripostes, stoopers, triposes. | |
-5 letters: esprits, isotope, oospore, ostoses, ostosis, persist, pissers, poisers, poorest, possets, posters, potsies, prestos, priests, prisses, prosses, prossie, prostie, reposit, resists, respots, riposte, riposts, ropiest, rosiest, seisors, sisters, sootier, sopites, sorites, soroses, sorosis, sorties, spriest, sprites, stirpes, stooper, stopers, stories, stripes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 73 74 65 6F 70 6F 72 6F 73 69 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O s t e o p o r o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0073 0074 0065 006F 0070 006F 0072 006F 0073 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498586718182818481857585 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danski, danski jezik, danés, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, голландська мова, голландський |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , francês, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, французька мова, французький |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , alemão, germanski, alemán, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | græker, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", grego, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japanilainen, Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonês, japanski, japanski jezik, japanac, japonés, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น, японська мова, японський, японка, японець |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", português, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , espanhol, španski, španski jezik, español, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailænder, Thais, Thai, thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, たい", tailandês, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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