DEFINITIONS AND EVOLUTION OF THE TERM OSTEOPOROSIS

Dr. Swapnil Jaiswal*, Dr. Brahamanand Sharma, Dr. Saurabh Agrawal, Dr. Avadhesh Shandily, Dr. Himani Rot, Dr. Pooja Rajpurohit

The word osteoporosis comes from the combination of two ancient Greek words: "osteon" (ὀστέον) which means "bone" and "poros" (πόρος), which means "passage" or "pore." The term first coined by French pathologist Jean Martin Lobstein in 1829. His work, which was published in French, was based on his studies of the human skeleton.^[[1]]