rickets

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1. rickets - Noun

2. rickets - Verb

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A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.

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Funk proposed the hypothesis that other diseases, such as rickets, pellagra, coeliac disease, and scurvy could also be cured by vitamins. Source: Internet

Children who do not get adequate amounts of vitamin D are at increased risk of rickets. Source: Internet

These percentages should be regarded as relative Vitamin D levels, and not as predicting evidence for development of rickets. Source: Internet

His health records indicate that Kinsey received suboptimal exposure to sunlight (often the cause of rickets, before milk and other foods were fortified with vitamin D ) and lived in unsanitary conditions for at least part of his childhood. Source: Internet

The child, whose gender is unclear, died between 12 and 14 years old, and had suffered from scurvy and rickets, and possibly tuberculosis and phossy jaw. Source: Internet

After the treatment with Mg, the rickets rapidly resolved." Source: Internet

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