glass bone disease

English

Alternative forms
  • glass-bone disease

Noun

glass bone disease (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Synonym of osteogenesis imperfecta
    • 2005, Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, Penguin (→ISBN)
      For this reason it is often known as 'glass bone disease' The mutations have their devastating effects because of the hierarchical nature in which collagens are organised.
    • 2013, Dr. Joe Rozencwajg NMD., Dynamic Gemmotherapy: Integrative Embryonic Phytotherapie, Lulu Press, Inc (→ISBN)
      […] and creating a better quality bone tissue: it is used in fractures, osteoporosis and is credited as having an action in osteopsatyrosis (glass bone disease) where it could prevent the almost spontaneous fractures characteristic of this disease.
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