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Meanings of rachitic in English

Affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets.

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Examples for "rickety"
1
It has the potential to completely undermine an already rickety democratic process.
The Guardian
2
A Florida cracker family, in a rickety wagon, stopped to help them.
The new yorker
3
And the rickety gig rattled merrily off in search of broken bones.
Not Pretty, but Precious; And Other Short Stories
4
He has great arguments but built the most rickety of bully pulpits.
The Guardian
5
The room at the foot of the rickety, patched stairs was empty.
Nibsy's Christmas
Usage of rachitic in English
1
It is unnecessary to give calcium directly, when a rachitic diet is observed.
Valere Aude: Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regen...
2
The patient had normal stature; without rachitic or boney deformities or a history of fractures.
Pubmed
3
Ussa made a rachitic sound that expressed dry irony.
Broken Circle
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C. was four years old when she entered, with every symptom of confirmed rachitic cretinism.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 / A Maga...
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As a consequence, GACI patients develop severe rachitic complications such as short stature and skeletal deformities.
Pubmed
6
He is also scrofulous, rachitic.
South Wind
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He was lean, wiry, rachitic.
The road
8
He calls attention to the fact that the scrofulous and rachitic diatheses in childhood are sometimes accompanied by this disorder.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Since the affected subjects suffer involvement of several of the extremities at the same time, the theory of rachitic origin seems well supported.
Lameness of the Horse / Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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As the bone presents no sign of rachitic degeneration, it may be supposed that an injury sustained during life was the cause of the anchylosis.
On Some Fossil Remains of Man
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