osteomalacia

A bone disease in adults analogous to rickets in children, marked by bone demineralization caused by impaired metabolism or deficiency of vitamin D or phosphorus.

In pathology, a disease, most frequent in women, but also occurring in men, in which there is progressive disappearance of the earthy salts from the bones, which in consequence become soft and misshapen. Also called malacosteon, and mollities ossium.

A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.

A softening of adult bones due to inadequate mineralization; the adult equivalent of rickets

abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D