rachitis
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of rachitis
1720–30; < New Latin < Greek rhachîtis inflammation of the spine. See rachis, -itis
Example Sentences
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The symptoms of rachitis become apparent at the pelvis and at the wide open, soft parts of the skull, the unossified fontanelles.
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Dechmann, Louis
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 Thomson, Alexis
He considered that the moxa must be admitted, without contradiction, to be the remedy par excellence against rachitis.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
The pathologists divide scoliosis into a myopathic variety, in which the trouble is a physiologic antagonism of the muscles; or osteopathic, ordinarily associated with rachitis, which latter variety is generally accountable for congenital scoliosis.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
A nurse would have said that it was five or six months old, but perhaps it might be a year, for growth, in poverty, suffers heart-breaking reductions which sometimes even produce rachitis.
From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor
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