rickets
IPA: rˈɪkɪts
noun
- (pathology) A disorder of infancy and early childhood caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft bones.
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Examples of "rickets" in Sentences
- I was the bow legged gentleman with rickets.
- Sub clinical rickets and recurrent infection.
- Thus the chief cause of this deformity is rickets.
- Biochemical features are similar to those of rickets.
- It appears that you inserted an e mail address to Rickets.
- She was afflicted with rickets and died unmarried and childless.
- The treatment and prevention of rickets is known as antirachitic.
- By the time the patent expired in 1945, rickets was all but nonexistent.
- However, rickets, anemia and cretinism are not inconsequential disorders.
- It's not there because vegans are walking around with rickets and cretinism.
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