BRITTLE BONE DISEASE

Meaning of BRITTLE BONE DISEASE in English

noun [ U ] ( medical )

a rare disease in which sb's bones break extremely easily

= osteoporosis

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

BRITTLE BONE DISEASE — ■ noun another term for osteogenesis imperfecta or osteoporosis .
Concise Oxford English vocab
BRITTLE — fragil, fractíbil
English interlingue dictionary
BRITTLE — I. adjective (~r; ~st) Etymology: Middle English britil; akin to Old English brēotan to break, Old Norse brjōta Date: 14th …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
DISEASE — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) Hansen disease degenerative joint disease Addison disease Alzheimer disease Lou Gehrig disease autoimmune disease …
Английский словарь Британика
BONE — I Rigid connective tissue of Bones serve as the body's supporting framework, provide muscle-attachment points for movement, protect the internal …
Английский словарь Британика
DISEASE — I. də̇ˈz]ēz, in sense 1a dəˈs] or (ˈ)di|s]\ noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English disese, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BRITTLE — I. ˈbrid. ə l, -it ə l adjective Etymology: Middle English britil; akin to Old English brēotan to break, Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BONE — I. ˈbōn noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English boon, bon, from Old English bān; akin to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BÔNE — adjective or bone Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: from Bône or Bone (now Annaba ), Algeria : of or from the …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BRITTLE — (a.) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Английский словарь Webster
BRITTLE — ( a. ) Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
DISEASE — — diseasedly , adv. — diseasedness , n. /di zeez"/ , n. , v. , diseased, diseasing . n. 1. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BRITTLE — — brittleness , n. /brit"l/ , adj., brittler, brittlest , n. , v. , brittled, brittling . adj. 1. having …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BONE — /bohn/ , n. , v. , boned, boning , adv. n. 1. Anat. , Zool. a. one of the structures …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BRITTLE — adj. friable; fragile, breakable; sensitive
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BRITTLE — I. ˈbri-t ə l adjective ( brit·tler ˈbrit-lər, ˈbri-t ə l-ər ; brit·tlest -ləst, -t ə l-əst) Etymology: Middle English …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BONE — I. ˈbōn noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English bon, from Old English bān; akin to Old High German & …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DISEASE — noun lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. 2. disease ·vt to deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to …
Webster English vocab
BRITTLE — adj easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Webster English vocab
BONE — vt to fertilize with bone. 2. bone ·noun dice. 3. bone ·noun fig.: the framework of anything. 4. bone ·vt …
Webster English vocab
BRITTLE — ■ adjective 1》 hard but liable to break easily. 2》 (of a voice) unpleasantly hard and sharp and showing signs …
Concise Oxford English vocab
BRITTLE — [brit.tle] adj brit.tler ; brit.tlest [ME britil; akin to OE breotan to break, ON brjota] (14c) 1 a: easily broken, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BONE — [bone] n, often attrib [ME bon, fr. OE ban; akin to OHG & ON bein bone, and perh. to OIr …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DISEASE — a harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state of an organism. A diseased organism commonly exhibits signs or …
Britannica English vocabulary
BONE — rigid body tissue consisting of cells embedded in an abundant, hard intercellular material. The two principal components of this material, …
Britannica English vocabulary
BRITTLE — brittl|e BrE AmE ˈbrɪt ə l AmE ˈbrɪt̬ ə l ▷ brittl|er ə AmE ə r ▷ brittl|eness nəs nɪs …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BONE — bone, Bone BrE AmE bəʊn AmE boʊn ▷ boned bəʊnd AmE boʊnd ▷ boning ˈbəʊn ɪŋ AmE ˈboʊn ɪŋ ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
DISEASE — / dɪˈziːz; NAmE / noun [ U , C ] 1. an illness affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BRITTLE — / ˈbrɪtl; NAmE / adjective 1. hard but easily broken : brittle bones / nails 2. a brittle mood or …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BONE — / bəʊn; NAmE boʊn/ noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] any of the hard parts that form …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DISEASE
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BRITTLE — brit ‧ tle /ˈbrɪtl/ BrE AmE adjective [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old English ; Origin: gebryttan 'to break into …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BONE — I. bone 1 S2 W2 /bəʊn $ boʊn/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ; Origin: ban ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BRITTLE — adj. & n. --adj. hard and fragile; apt to break. --n. a brittle sweet made from nuts and set melted …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BONE — n. & v. --n. 1 any of the pieces of hard tissue making up the skeleton in vertebrates. 2 (in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BRITTLE — adj. & n. adj. hard and fragile; apt to break. n. a brittle sweet made from nuts and set melted …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BONE — n. & v. n. 1 any of the pieces of hard tissue making up the skeleton in vertebrates. 2 (in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BRITTLE — adj. & n. --adj. hard and fragile; apt to break. --n. a brittle sweet made from nuts and set melted …
Oxford English vocab
BONE — n. & v. --n. 1. any of the pieces of hard tissue making up the skeleton in vertebrates. 2 (in …
Oxford English vocab
DISEASE — ( diseases) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A disease is an illness …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BRITTLE — 1. An object or substance that is brittle is hard but easily broken. Pine is brittle and breaks. ...the dry, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BONE — ( bones, boning, boned) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Your bones …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DISEASE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BRITTLE — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN bone ▪ Osteoporosis Otherwise known as brittle bone disease, osteoporosis is a major cause …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BONE — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES bone china bone dry ▪ There had been no rain for months and the …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DISEASE — [noun] - (an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by …
Cambridge English vocab
BRITTLE — [adjective] - delicate and easily brokenAs you get older your bones become increasingly brittle.The pond was covered in a brittle …
Cambridge English vocab
DISEASE — n. brown lung disease Hansen disease degenerative joint disease Addison disease Alzheimer disease Lou Gehrig disease autoimmune disease Bright disease …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BONE — n. Rigid connective tissue of vertebrates , consisting of cells embedded in a hard matrix. Bones serve as the body's …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
BRITTLE — Synonyms and related words : atrophied, breakable, brittle as glass, capricious, changeable, cheap-jack, cobwebby, corruptible, crackable, crisp, crispy, crumbly, crump, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BONE — Synonyms and related words : adamant, aitchbone, anklebone, anvil, backbone, bill, biscuit, bony, breastbone, brick, buck, calcaneus, cannon bone, carpal, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
DISEASE — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ common ▪ obscure , rare ▪ dangerous , serious ▪ mild ▪ acute , chronic , severe …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
BRITTLE — adj. Brittle is used with these nouns: ↑ bone , ↑ nail , ↑ stem
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
DISEASE — INDEX: 1. an illness 2. to have an illness 3. to start to have an illness 4. a short illness …
Longman Activator English vocab
BRITTLE — adj. 25B6; adjective glass is a brittle material : BREAKABLE, fragile, delicate; splintery; formal frangible. a brittle laugh : HARSH, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BONE — n. 25B6; noun . See lists here and at fracture . osseous, osteo-. Human Bones See also vertebra . occipital …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BRITTLE — < jargon > Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
DISEASE — n. 1 sickness, affliction, ailment, malady, illness, infection, complaint, disorder, condition, infirmity, disability, Archaic murrain, Colloq bug The colonel contracted …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
BRITTLE — adj. 1 fragile, frangible, breakable; friable My fingernails become brittle in the cold and break easily 2 frail, weak, delicate, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
BRITTLE — Said of software that is functional but easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration, or by any minor …
Jargon File English vocabulary
DISEASE — 1. сущ. болезнь to come down with disease, to contract a disease ≈ заболеть to carry disease, to spread (a) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BRITTLE — прил. ломкий, хрупкий Syn : fragile ореховые леденцы в форме плиток хрупкий, ломкий раздраженный, нервный - * tone раздраженный тон …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BONE — I 1. сущ. 1) о кости как части тела позвоночных а) кость to the bone bone-polisher set a broken bone …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DISEASE — disease.ogg 1. dıʹzi:z n 1. болезнь infectious disease - инфекционная болезнь disease of childhood - детская болезнь diseases of the …
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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