Osteogenesis, electrically stimulated
Bone growth caused by implanting electrodes in an area of bone and sending electrical current to them. This procedure may be used to jump-start the healing process when a bone has been broken.
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- Osteoid osteoma
A benign tumor of bone tissue. Osteoid osteoma emerges most often in a person?s teens or 20s and is found most frequently in the femur and in males. Symptoms include pain, mostly at night. Diagnosis is made via X-ray. Most cases do not require invasive treatment, but just the use of analgesics to treat pain.
- Osteology
The study of bones. The branch of anatomy or physical anthropology that deals with bones. Bone-ology.
- Osteolytic
Pertaining to the dissolution of bone, especially the loss of calcium from bone. “Punched-out” osteolytic lesions are characteristic of metastatic lung and breast cancer and multiple myeloma.
- Osteolytic lesion
A “punched-out” area of severe bone loss. Osteolytic lesions are seen in metastatic lung and breast cancer and multiple myeloma and may cause bone pain, pathologic fractures (bones broken by disease), and hypercalcemia (high blood calcium).
- Osteomalacia
Softening of bone, particularly in the sense of bone weakened by demineralization (the loss of mineral) and most notably by the depletion of calcium from bone. Osteomalacia may be caused by poor dietary intake or poor absorption of calcium and other minerals needed to harden bones. Osteomalacia is a characteristic feature of vitamin D deficiency […]