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Osteoporosis is a bone disease that occurs when the body loses too much bone, makes too little bone, or both. As a result, bones become weak and may break from a fall or, in serious cases, from sneezing or minor bumps. Osteoporosis means âporous bone.â Viewed under a microscope, healthy bone looks like a honeycomb.
Visible Human Journal of Endoscopy, Vol 9. Osteoporosis: An Endocrinologistâs Perspective. Osteoporosis is defined as impaired bone strength that predisposes to the development of fragility fractures1-4. Fragility fractures are bone fractures that occur with low trauma (a fall from a standing height or less). Figures 1 and 2 illustrate a vertebral fracture as imaged by a lateral chest X-ray and MRI, respectively.