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The occurrence of the disease is favoured, and its features are aggravated, by imperfect oxygenation of the blood as the result of a deficiency of fresh air and sunlight, want of exercise, and by other conditions which prevail in the slums of large towns Pathological Anatomy._--The most striking feature is the softness (malacia) of the bones, due to excessive absorption of osseous tissue, and the formation of an imperfectly calcified tissue at the sites of ossification.— Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
He lost the freshman season to a debilitating inflammation of the knees - chondro malacia and Osgood Schlatter Disease.— The Herald-Mail Online
[34] The word _ambactus_ (= _cliens_); and the forms _malacia_,— The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

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