osteoporosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + Ancient Greek πώρωσις (pṓrōsis, “petrification, callousness”), from Ancient Greek πῶρος (pôros, “tuff, a porous type of rock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɒstiəʊpəˈɹəʊsɪs/

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Noun

osteoporosis (countable and uncountable, plural osteoporoses)

1. (pathology) A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture.

Derived terms

• osteoporotic

Translations

bone disease

• Catalan: osteoporosi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 骨質疏鬆／骨质疏松 (zh) (gǔzhìshūsōng, gǔzhíshūsōng)

• Czech: osteoporóza (cs) f
• Dutch: botontkalking (nl), osteoporose (nl)
• Finnish: osteoporoosi (fi), luukato (fi)
• French: ostéoporose (fr) f
• German: Osteoporose (de) f
• Greek: οστεοπόρωση (el) (osteopórosi)
• Icelandic: beinþynning
• Irish: oistéapóróis f
• Italian: osteoporosi (it) f
• Japanese: 骨粗鬆症 (ja) (こつそしょうしょう, kotsusoshōshō)
• Korean: 골다공증(骨多孔症) (ko) (goldagongjeung)
• Maori: mate wheua pōareare
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ясны сийрэгжилт (jasny siiregžilt), яс сийрэгжих (jas siiregžix) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠶᠠᠰᠤᠨ ᠦ
  ᠰᠡᠢᠢᠷᠡᠭᠵᠢᠯᠲᠠ (yasun-ü seiireɣǰilta), ᠶᠠᠰᠦ
  ᠰᠡᠢ᠌ᠢᠷᠡᠭᠵᠢᠬᠦ (yasü seiireɣǰikü)

• Persian: پوکی استخوان (puki-ye ostoxân)
• Polish: osteoporoza (pl) f
• Portuguese: osteoporose (pt) f
• Russian: остеопоро́з (ru) m (osteoporóz)
• Spanish: osteoporosis (es) f
• Swedish: benskörhet (sv) c, osteoporos (sv) c, urkalkning c
• Turkish: osteoporoz (tr), kemik erimesi (tr)
• Vietnamese: chứng loãng xương

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /osteopoˈɾosis/ [os.t̪e.o.poˈɾo.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: os‧te‧o‧po‧ro‧sis

Noun

osteoporosis f (plural osteoporosis)

1. osteoporosis

Further reading

• “osteoporosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014