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
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osteopetrosis
Summary
osteopetrosis is a designated intractable/rare disease[1]. osteopetrosis draws 2,225 Wikipedia views per month (designated_intractable_rare_disease category, ranking #104 of 201).[2]
Key Facts
- osteopetrosis's instance of is recorded as designated intractable/rare disease[3].
- osteopetrosis's instance of is recorded as rare disease[4].
- osteopetrosis's instance of is recorded as class of disease[5].
- Heinrich Albers-Schönberg is named after osteopetrosis[6].
- osteopetrosis is a type of osteosclerosis[7].
- osteopetrosis's Commons category is recorded as Osteopetrosis[8].
- osteopetrosis's external data available at URL is recorded as http://www.nanbyou.or.jp/entry/5392[9].
- osteopetrosis's described by source is recorded as The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[10].
- osteopetrosis's ICD-9-CM is recorded as 756.52[11].
- osteopetrosis's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C26840[12].
- osteopetrosis's health specialty is recorded as medical genetics[13].
- osteopetrosis's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as interferon gamma-1b[14].
- osteopetrosis's genetic association is recorded as TCIRG1[15].
- osteopetrosis's genetic association is recorded as LRP5[16].
- osteopetrosis's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_13533[17].
- osteopetrosis's exact match is recorded as http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:13533[18].
- osteopetrosis's exact match is recorded as http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_667[19].
- osteopetrosis's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Medicine[20].
- osteopetrosis's P14541 is recorded as 1ZiRRF[21].
Why It Matters
osteopetrosis draws 2,225 Wikipedia views per month (designated_intractable_rare_disease category, ranking #104 of 201).[2] osteopetrosis has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] osteopetrosis is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]