different between sarcopenia vs osteoporosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (sárx, “flesh”) +? ?????? (pení?, “poverty, want”)

Noun

sarcopenia (usually uncountable, plural sarcopenias)

1. (pathology) gradual age-related loss of skeletal muscle

Derived terms

• sarcopenic
• osteosarcopenia

Translations

References

• http://www.wordspy.com/words/sarcopenia.asp
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17052879&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

Anagrams

• paranoeics, paranœics

Dutch

Noun

sarcopenia f (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sarcopenie

Spanish

Noun

sarcopenia f (plural sarcopenias)

1. sarcopenia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ostéon, “bone”) + Ancient Greek ??????? (p?r?sis, “petrification, callousness”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pôros, “tuff, a porous type of rock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??sti??p?????s?s/

Noun

osteoporosis (countable and uncountable, plural osteoporoses)

1. (pathology) A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture.

Derived terms

• osteoporotic

Translations

Spanish

Noun

osteoporosis f (plural osteoporosis)

1. osteoporosis