1. a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities; [syn: Paget's disease, osteitis deformans]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
osteitis deformans
n 1: a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly;
excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain
and fractures and skeletal deformities [syn: Paget's
disease, osteitis deformans]