Paget's disease love

Paget's disease

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A disease, occurring chiefly in old age, in which the bones become enlarged and weakened, often resulting in fracture or deformation.
  • noun A form of breast cancer affecting the areola and nipple.
  • noun A skin cancer arising from apocrine sweat glands.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Eczema about the nipple, terminating in carcinoma.
  • noun Arthritis and osteitis deformans.

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  • noun pathology The bone disease osteitis deformans.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a disease of bone occurring in the middle aged and elderly; excessive bone destruction sometimes leading to bone pain and fractures and skeletal deformities

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Sir James Paget.]

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Named after British surgeon James Paget (1814-1899) who was the first to describe this disease.

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