brittle bone disease

noun

variants or less commonly brittle bones

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To complicate matters, both Teresa and Austin have osteogenesis imperfecta, aka brittle bone disease. Ralphie Aversa, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025 Here’s a sampling: autism, brittle bone disease, alcoholism, financial struggles and marital difficulties. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025 Xuân Trương is a co-founder of Access CLT and a licensed clinical social work associate who was born with Osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as OI or brittle bone disease. Dasia Williams, Charlotte Observer, 19 July 2024 Our working diagnosis was osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), or brittle bone disease, an extremely rare condition that weakens bones. Amitha Kalaichandran, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018 There’s Tollsyn Crandall, the 13-year-old with Osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease. Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2022 Thompson is also a disability rights speaker, facilitator and consultant who has osteogenesis imperfecta (commonly known as brittle bone disease) and is also a little woman who uses a wheelchair, and is hard of hearing. Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022 A few years ago, Lee and Germain-Lee tested this drug on mice diagnosed with a version of brittle bone disease. Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020 Whiley was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, an affliction commonly referred to as brittle bone disease. Wayne Coffey, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1960, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of brittle bone disease was in 1960

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“Brittle bone disease.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brittle%20bone%20disease. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.

Medical Definition

brittle bone disease

noun
variants also brittle bones
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