hypomineralization

English

Etymology

From hypo- +‎ mineralization.

Noun

hypomineralization (countable and uncountable, plural hypomineralizations)

1. Insufficient mineralization
   • 2015 August 21, Svetlana V. Komarova et al., “Mathematical model for bone mineralization”, in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology‎^[1], volume 3, →DOI:

     To compare the model predictions to the phenotype of bone disorders known to result in abnormal mineralization, we examined hypomineralization in osteomalacia and hypermineralization in osteogenesis imperfecta.