See Also: osteopetrosis(medicine)
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Wolff (iou) and osteopetrosis (medicine)


Wolff (iou)



Wolff noun. M20.
[Ludwig Wolff (1857-1919), German chemist.]
Chemistry. Wolff rearrangement, a molecular rearrangement, important in the conversion of an organic acid to its next higher homologue, in which a diazoketone loses a molecule of nitrogen and forms a ketene.
Comb.: Wolff-Kishner reduction [Nikolai M. Kishner (1867-1935), Russian chemist] the reduction of an aldehyde or ketone to an alkane by heating the hydrazone or semicarbazone derivative in a strongly basic solution.

osteopetrosis (medicine)


osteopetrosis


The formation of abnormally dense bone, as opposed to osteoporosis.