Malacia

The term malacia (also Malacie and Latin Malacia ), from ancient Greek μαλακία malakía , German 'softness, disease' , describes in medicine an abnormal, pathological softening or dissolution of tissue .

Together with the technical term for the affected organ or tissue, the disease name results:

• Bronchomalacia
• Chondromalacia patellae
• Encephalomalacia
• Keratomalacia , softening and opacity of the cornea
• Laryngomalacia
• Osteomalacia
• Tracheomalacia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willibald Pschyrembel : Clinical Dictionary , 266th, updated edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033997-0

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