"breakdown" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Silicon doesn't seem to stop the bone breakdown.
- It is osteoclasts that play a role in normal bone breakdown; osteoblasts are involved in the rebuilding of bone.
- A high level in the plasma indicates bone breakdown.
- Bone-forming medications are designed to do just what they say: instead of stopping the process of bone breakdown, they work to build more bone.
- Bone loss - where bone breakdown is outpacing bone buildup - occurs in the mid-30s.
- Certain medical conditions that increase bone breakdown, such as kidney disease, Cushing's syndrome, and an overactive thyroid or parathyroid, can also lead to osteoporosis.
- Steroids also cause bone breakdown directly.
- Six of the drugs inhibit bone breakdown and one spurs the growth of new bone.
- "What it does is both increase bone formation and decrease bone breakdown."
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