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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Crippled teeth and the late appearance of teeth in infants,—that is, not before the ninth month,—are symptoms of rachitis.
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Dechmann, Louis
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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
In the progressive development of the disease, the softened cartilage grows and protrudes everywhere, especially in the thorax, such as "rachitis rosary."
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Dechmann, Louis
Figure 213 shows the appearance during life of a patient with the highest grade of rachitis, and it can be easily understood what a barrier to natural child-birth it would produce.
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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