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Paget's disease
noun
- Pathology. a chronic disease characterized by episodic accelerated bone resorption and growth of abnormal replacement bone, causing bone pain, deformation, fractures, and osteosarcoma; osteitis deformans.
Paget's disease
/ ˈpædʒɪts /
noun
- Also calledosteitis deformans a chronic disease of the bones characterized by inflammation and deformation
- Also calledPaget's cancer cancer of the nipple and surrounding tissue
Paget's disease
/ păj′ĭts /
- A disease, occurring chiefly in the elderly, in which the bones become enlarged and weakened, often resulting in fracture or deformity.
- A breast cancer manifested by inflammatory changes of the nipple and surrounding skin.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Paget's disease1
1875–80; named after Sir James Paget, who described it
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Paget's disease1
C19: named after Sir James Paget (1814–99), British surgeon and pathologist, who described these diseases
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