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n. - An inherited disorder characterized by an increase in bone density.

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  • Karas remembered hearing, "It was a little 1-year-old boy with this horrible disease called osteopetrosis, and the only cure was a bone marrow transplant, and would I be...
  • Welling was diagnosed at a very young age with a rare genetic condition known as osteopetrosis in which bone matter can crush bone marrow cavities and can lead to...
  • But some people actually lay down too much calcium in bone, a condition called "osteopetrosis" from "petros" as in stony.
  • One infant showed evidence of a rare congenital disease, osteopetrosis or "stone bones."
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