rachitis

[ ruh-kahy-tis ]

noun

, Pathology.

1. rickets.

rachitis

/ rəˈkɪtɪk; rəˈkaɪtɪs /

noun

1. pathol another name for rickets

Derived Forms

• rachitic, adjective

Other Words From

• ra·chit·ic [r, uh, -, kit, -ik], adjective
• postra·chitic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of rachitis¹

1720–30; < New Latin < Greek rhachîtis inflammation of the spine. See rachis, -itis

Word History and Origins

Origin of rachitis¹

C18: New Latin, from Greek rhakitis ; see rachis

Example Sentences

They occurred in Guy's Hospital, and were published by H. G. Howse in Guy's Hospital Reports for 1879: On March 15, 1878, Jacobson performed osteotomy upon a child suffering from extreme rachitis.

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It has been erroneously confounded by some writers with bronchocele and rachitis, from both of which it is totally distinct.

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He considered that the moxa must be admitted, without contradiction, to be the remedy par excellence against rachitis.

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It was an unpretentious institution—two corner houses knocked together—near the east lung of London; supported mainly by the poor at a penny a week, and scarcely recognized by the rich; so that paraplegia and vertigo and rachitis and a dozen other hopeless diseases knocked hopelessly at its narrow portals.

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Rachitis or rickets is a pathological condition in some way connected with a protracted disturbance of digestion which in turn leads to faulty calcium metabolism.

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