osteoporotic

[ os-tee-oh-puh-rot-ik ]

adjectivePathology.
  1. of, relating to, or caused by osteoporosis.

  2. affected with osteoporosis; having increasingly porous or brittle bones owing to loss of calcium and other mineral components.

Origin of osteoporotic

1
First recorded in 1905–10; osteoporo(sis) + -tic

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