Malacia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Malacia is a noun meaning (medicine, pathology) Abnormal softening of organs or tissues of the human body.
Meaning
(medicine, pathology) Abnormal softening of organs or tissues of the human body.
More Meanings
- (medicine, obsolete) An abnormal craving for certain types of food.
Example Sentences
The least abnormal condition appears to be the malacia, or desire for highly spiced or acid foods that are sometimes seen in chlorotic girls and in pregnant women.
As soon, namely, as a process of this sort sets in in a compound organ, as for example, a muscle, a palpable myo-malacia is certainly produced when all the muscular elements at a given point are at once affected; but it happens far more frequently that, in the course of a muscle, only a comparatively small number of primitive fasciculi are affected, whilst the others remain almost intact.
Word Forms
- malacias
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include osteo, myelomalacia, odontomalacia, leukomalacia, leucomalacia, hepatomalacia.
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