Paget's disease

noun

1. 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

1. Also called: osteitis deformans. a chronic disease of the bones characterized by inflammation and deformation

2. Also called: Paget's cancer. cancer of the nipple and surrounding tissue

Paget's disease

1. A disease, occurring chiefly in the elderly, in which the bones become enlarged and weakened, often resulting in fracture or deformity.

2. A breast cancer manifested by inflammatory changes of the nipple and surrounding skin.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Paget's disease¹

1875–80; named after Sir James Paget, who described it

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