Disease or Syndrome
osteopenia Audio
os·te·o·pe·ni·a [ os-tee-oh-pee-nee-uh ]
Definitions related to osteopenia:
  • A condition in which there is a lower-than-normal bone mass or bone mineral density (the amount of bone mineral contained in a certain amount of bone). Osteopenia is a less severe form of bone loss than osteoporosis.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Decreased calcification or density of bone tissue.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Decreased calcification, bone density, or bone mass due to inadequate osteoid synthesis.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Mild thinning and weakening of the bones; bone density is lower than normal but not low enough to be classified as osteoporosis.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Osteopenia is a term to define bone density that is not normal but also not as low as osteoporosis. By definition from the World Health Organization osteopenia is defined by bone densitometry as a T score -1 to -2.5.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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