osteopetrosis
an extremely rare inherited disorder whereby the bones harden, becoming denser, sometimes causing bones to dissolve and break, caused by malfunctioning osteoclasts’ inability to resorb bone
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds
0 sources
Summary
osteopetrosis is a designated intractable/rare disease[1]. osteopetrosis draws 1,005 Wikipedia views per month (designated intractable rare disease category, ranking #104 of 201).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: rare disease[3], class of disease[4]
- Named after: Heinrich Albers-Schönberg[5]
- Subclass of: osteosclerosis[6]
- Commons category: Osteopetrosis[7]
- External data available at URL: http://www.nanbyou.or.jp/entry/5392[8]
- Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[9]
- ICD-9-CM: 756.52[10]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C26840[11]
- Health specialty: medical genetics[12]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: interferon gamma-1b[13]
- Genetic association: TCIRG1[14], LRP5[15]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13533[16], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13533[17], http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_667[18]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[19]
- P14541: 1ZiRRF[20]
Why It Matters
osteopetrosis has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] osteopetrosis is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]