title: [Kanji character "sho" was first used for Japanese nomenclature of osteoporosis in 1897, the Meiji era].
abstract: The roughness and weakness of bone was really expressed by the character of "sho", which means the sight through the fine small leaves of pinetree in old Japabese seenery.
authors: Tottori University, Japan.
authors: Kichizo
authors: K
authors: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000266:history*; D009626:Terminology as Topic