Rickets Synonyms

rĭkĭts
Childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rachitis

Words Related to Rickets

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. osteomalacia
  2. vitamin-deficiency
  3. pellagra
  4. rheumatic-fever
  5. protein-deficiency
  6. beriberi
  7. anemia

Rickets Sentence Examples

  • Rickets, scurvy and "marasmus" may be instanced as diet diseases in children.

  • Owing to this influence it has been used in rickets and osteomalacia.

  • The most important disease hitherto undescribed was rickets, first made known by Arnold de Boot, a Frisian who practised in Ireland, in 1649, and afterwards more fully in the celebrated work of Francis Glisson (1597-1677) in 1651.

  • Rickets results from a lack of vitamin D rich foods in a child's diet, insufficient sunlight exposure, or digestive system problems that result in poor vitamin D absorption.

  • Thus the liability to tubercular infection is far commoner in the midst of a depraved population than in one fulfilling the primary laws of nature; rickets is a disease of great cities rather than of rural districts; and syphilis is more disastrous and protracted in its course in the depraved in health than in the robust.

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