bone softening

Long-term exposure to cadmium can lead to bone softening and kidney failure.

Without enough of it, a child can get rickets, and an adult might suffer bone softening, a mineralization defect.

She felt her flesh begin to shift, her bones softening and re-forming in a new configuration.

Occasionally the limb is displaced from its normal position, and marked bone softening and thinning is more dispersed.

Deficiency results in impaired bone mineralization and leads to bone softening diseases including rickets in children and osteomalacia and osteoporosis in adults.

Vitamin D Deficiency Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets, or bone softening, in children, and in adults can cause osteomalacia, which involves the loss of calcium and protein from bones.