Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A generalized reduction in bone mass that is less severe than that resulting from osteoporosis, caused by the resorption of bone at a rate that exceeds bone synthesis.
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- noun The medical condition of having
low bone density , but not low enough to be consideredosteoporosis .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The precursor of osteoporosis is called osteopenia; you technically have osteoporosis when your bone density falls low enough that only 5 percent of twenty-year-old women have less than you.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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The precursor of osteoporosis is called osteopenia; you technically have osteoporosis when your bone density falls low enough that only 5 percent of twenty-year-old women have less than you.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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The precursor of osteoporosis is called osteopenia; you technically have osteoporosis when your bone density falls low enough that only 5 percent of twenty-year-old women have less than you.
You Staying Young MEHMET C. OZ 2007
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The company's effort involved urging doctors to treat patients not only for osteoporosis but also for a milder form of bone loss known as osteopenia, which is common among middle-aged women.
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In other words, they had some evidence of bone thinning, sometimes called osteopenia, but they didn't have osteoporosis.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Lesser degrees of bone loss, known as osteopenia, may or may not benefit from drug therapy.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Lesser degrees of bone loss, known as osteopenia, may or may not benefit from drug therapy.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Lesser degrees of bone loss, known as osteopenia, may not benefit from drug therapy.
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Lesser degrees of bone loss, known as osteopenia, may not benefit from drug therapy.
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People with osteoporosis, or low bone density, were three times more likely to have vertigo, and people with osteopenia, which is the stage before osteoporosis, were twice as likely to have vertigo as people who had normal bone density.
Emaxhealth 2009
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