While the word porous isn't generally used in medical terminology, -porotic is the medical terminology combining form meaning porous. For instance, osteoporotic means a condition of more porous bones.
Osteoporosis is the condition of porous bone. Osteoporotic is the related adjective.
Osteoporosis (Os, Osteum is bone in latin, porus- pore, sporus)
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Spongy bones are not literally spongy. These bones are just extremely porous giving the appearance of looking like spongy material.
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Oseteoporosis. "Osteo" is the root word meaning "bones", and the "porous" part indicates that the bones aren't as solid as they should be.
Hollow light weight bones means less weight, which results in a bird using less energy to fly and making it easier for the bird to take off from the ground.
Condition caused by calcium deficiency; bones become porous, weak, and fragile.
The correct spelling is "osteoporosis" (condition leaving bones porous and brittle).
porous is actually adjective which means having pores.porous solids are those solids which has porous nature.for instance alight soft foam.another characteristic of porous solids is that they absorb water like cotton so it is also a porous solid............
Porous means 'with holes'. So non-porous means 'without holes'
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