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Paget's disease′, 
  1. PathologyPathol. a chronic disease characterized by episodic accelerated bone resorption and growth of abnormal replacement bone, causing bone pain, deformation, fractures, and osteosarcoma;
    osteitis deformans.
  • named after Sir James Paget, who described it 1875–80

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