rachitis
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of rachitis
1720–30; < New Latin < Greek rhachîtis inflammation of the spine. See rachis, -itis
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Occasionally one may observe in suckling colts outward luxation of the patella wherein there is history of navel infection and no marked evidence of rachitis is present.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Scurvy has now been added to the fold and rickets or rachitis seems well on the way to acceptance though the specific vitamine absent in this case is not yet positively identified.
From The Vitamine Manual by Walter H. Eddy
Rickets or rachitis is a constitutional disease associated with disturbance of nutrition, and attended with changes in the skeleton.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
Analogous to rachitis is achondroplasia, or the so called fetal rickets—a disease in which deformity results from an arrest, absence, or perversion of the normal process of enchondral ossification.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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