| bone demineralization, pathologic | Decrease, loss, or removal of the mineral constituents of bones. Temporary loss of bone mineral content is especially associated with space flight, weightlessness, and extended immobilization. Osteoporosis is permanent, includes reduction of total bone mass, and is associated with increased rate of fractures. Calcification, physiologic is the process of bone remineralizing. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| bone demineralization technique | Removal of mineral constituents or salts from bone or bone tissue. Demineralization is used as a method of studying bone strength and bone chemistry. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| rapid demineralization | <radiology> Immobilization atrophy, Sudeck's atrophy (reflex sympathetic dystrophy), rheumatoid or psoriatic (rarely in inflammatory states) see also: vanishing bone (spontaneous osteolysis) syndromes (12 Dec 1998) |
| demineralization | A loss or decrease of the mineral constituents of the body or individual tissues, especially of bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tooth demineralization | A tooth's loss of minerals, such as calcium in hydroxyapatite from the tooth matrix, caused by acidic exposure. An example of the occurrence of demineralization is in the formation of dental caries. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pathologic | 1. Indicative of or caused by a morbid condition. 2. Pertaining to pathology (branch of medicine that treats the essential nature of the disease, especially the structural and functional changes in tissues and organs of the body caused by the disease). (18 Nov 1997) |
| pathologic absorption | Parenteral absorption of any excremental or pathologic material into the bloodstream, e.g., pus, urine, bile, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathologic amenorrhoea | Amenorrhoea due to organic disease, either uterine or other, e.g., ovarian or pituitary failure, Simmonds' disease, inconstant and irrelevant debility. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathologic amputation | Amputation necessitated by cancer or other disease of the limb and not by an injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathologic calcification | Calcification occurring in excretory or secretory passages as calculi, and in tissues other than bone and teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathologic diagnosis | A diagnosis, sometimes postmortem, made from an anatomic and/or histologic study of the lesions present. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathologic fracture | A fracture occurring at a site weakened by preexisting disease, especially neoplasm or necrosis, of the bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathologic glycosuria | Chronic excretion of relatively large amounts of sugar in the urine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathologic histology | <study> This is the science concerned with the study of microscopic changes in diseased tissues. (09 Oct 1997) |
| pathologic physiology | That part of the science of disease concerned with disordered function, as distinguished from anatomical lesions. Synonym: physiopathology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathologic processes | The mechanisms and forms involved in the structural and functional changes in tissue and organs which cause or are caused by disease. (12 Dec 1998) |