rickets in English

noun
1
a disease of children caused by vitamin D deficiency, characterized by imperfect calcification, softening, and distortion of the bones typically resulting in bow legs.
To absorb calcium, the body needs adequate vitamin D. Lack of either can cause bone diseases such as rickets in children and osteoporosis in older people.
noun
    rachitis

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1. Rickets is quite rare now.

2. Rickets is a deformity, mainly found in children.

3. Tuberculosis and malnutrition were prevalent, as was rickets.

4. Rickets was defined as the guideline of "Prevention and Treatment of Rickets in Nurseling " by the State Ministry of Health in 19

5. And it is, to prevent rickets and so on.

6. Vitamin deficiency can cause ill nesses, eg scurvy, rickets.

7. Ricketks Rickets is deformity , a deformity mainly found in children.

8. Rickets can cause and weakness, teeth problems and muscle loss.

9. Avitaminosis D: An obsolete term for: (1) Osteomalacia; (2) Rickets.

10. 14 Tuberculosis and malnutrition were prevalent,(www.Sentencedict.com) as was rickets.

11. The diseases of the time affected almost every family: tuberculosis, rickets, pneumonia.

12. It also appears to do more than just protect against rickets.

13. Objective : To discuss the relation of rickets and blood lead level.

14. Improved diet has been responsible for a dramatic decrease in rickets.

15. Rickets can cause bone pain and weakness, teeth problems and muscle loss.

16. And it appears to do more then just protect against ( weakens ) rickets.

17. Lack of Calcium in children would lead to rickets, eclampsia and decayed teeth, etc.

18. This has led to many cases of rickets, scurvy, blindness, goiter and the like.

19. Vitamin D is crucial for bone growth in children and deficiency can result in rickets.

20. Signs of deficiency would be rickets ( in children ), joint pain, bone deformities, poor growth.

21. Eventually, Charles apparently conquered his physical infirmity, which might have been caused by rickets.

22. His arms and legs are deformed and bent, as though he had suffered from rickets.

23. Adequate vitamin D prevents the development of bone diseases such as rickets, osteomalacia and osteoporosis.

24. So vitamin D is good for you -- it stops rickets, it prevents calcium metabolism, important stuff.

25. Rickets is a disease of children characterized a failure of the growing bones to calcify normally.

26. Without it, humans experience serious fatigue and weakened bones that can cause a condition known as rickets.

27. Diseases from our history texts, like rickets and scurvy, have begun to reappear in the West.

28. Rickets is a disease of children characterized by a failure of the growing bones to calcify normally.

29. Further medical tests revealed that Joel also had a serious heart malformation and a severe form of rickets.

30. The role of diet in the development of rickets was determined by Edward Mellanby between 1918–1920.

31. 26 Diseases from our history texts, like rickets and scurvy, have begun to reappear in the West.

32. Spouses or newly-weds should carry a copy of their marriage certificate where passports and rickets are in different names.

33. A lack of Calcium could lead to a condition called rickets in children, and osteomalacia or osteoporosis in later life

34. In children , vitamin D deficiency once caused many cases of rickets , a bone disease and a major public health problem in the U.S .

35. Conclusion The cardinal symptom of late rickets in children is intervallic pain in the lower extremities and to be easily misdiagnosed as growing pain.

36. Vitamin D deficiency rickets among Breastfed infants is rare, but it can occur if an infant does not receive additional vitamin D from foods, a vitamin D supplement, or adequate exposure to sunlight.

37. Díaz was named Director of the School Medical Service of Chile in 1911, where she implemented school breakfasts and mass vaccination of students, as well as campaigns to combat alcoholism, rickets and tuberculosis.

38. Avitaminosis is a group of diseases that is due to a lack of one or more than one vitamin. The diseases in the Avitaminosis group are pellagra, beriberi, scurvy, rickets, and night blindness

39. Bossing: Rounded prominence of the frontal and parietal bones in an infant’s cranial vault, due to various causes Aetiology Untreated vitamin D-induced rickets, which causes a thickened outer table with permanent enlargement of the head, congenital anemia—e.g., thalassaemia with massive hematopoiesis in an expanded marrow space, aka ‘hot cross

40. Disputatio medica inaugurales de morbo puerili Anglorum quem patrio idiômate indiginae vocant the rickets : quam Deo suppetias ferente, ex Authoritate Johannis Polyandri à Kerchoven decreto illustrissima facultatis medicae, & amplissimi senatûs academici consensu, pro gradu doctoratûs, summisque in medicinâ privilegiis consequendis, discutiendam proponit Daniel Whistler, Anglo