Look up: Rickets

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   Rickets
   Rickets is a defective growth of bone disease caused by a lack of vitamin D.
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   rickets
   [n] - childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus
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   Rickets is a disease usually caused by a vitamin D deficiency, which makes it difficult for the body to absorb calcium. It results in bowed or deformed legs.
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   Rickets
   a childhood disease in which bones lack calcium and are deformed as a result of vitamin D deficiency (vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium)
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   Childhood disease of growing bones due to vitamin D deficiency
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   Rickets
   A now rare disease of children caused by a lack of vitamin D, causing deformity of the lower limbs
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   A disease in children caused by a deficiency of vitamins which results in the softening of bones.
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   Rickets: A disease of infants and children that disturbs normal bone formation (ossification). Rickets is a failure to mineralize bone. This softens bone (producing osteomalacia) and permits marked bending and distortion of bones. Up through the first third of the 20th century, rickets was largely due to lack of direct exposure to sunlight or lack ...
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   Rick'ets noun plural [ Of uncertain origin; but confer Anglo-Saxon wrigian to bend, Dutch wrikken to shake, E. wriggle .] (Medicine) 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 fa ...
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    rickets
    <rheumatology, orthopaedics> A condition caused by deficiency of vitamin D, especially in infancy and childhood, with disturbance of normal ossification. ... The disease is marked by bending and distortion of the bones under muscular action, by the formation of nodular enlargements on the ends and sides of the bones, by delayed closure of the ...
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    rachitis noun childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus
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    Rickets
    `Rickets` is a softening of the bones in children potentially leading to fractures and deformity. Rickets is among the most frequent childhood diseases in many developing countries. The predominant cause is a vitamin D deficiency, but lack of adequate calcium in the diet may also lead to rickets. Although it can occur in adults, the majority of cases occur in children suffering from severe malnutrition, usually resulting from famine or starvation...
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    rickets
    (rik´әts) a condition seen most often in children, caused by deficiency of vitamin D, which leads to altered calcium and phosphorus metabolism. The major symptom is softening of the bones, which can produce various degrees of deformity in children, and inability of the bones to support or protect the body normally...
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    • (n. pl.) 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...
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    rickets
    disease of infancy and childhood characterized by defective bone growth and caused by a lack of vitamin D in the body.[13 related articles]
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    rickets
    (thought to be a corruption of Gr. rhachitis a spinal complaint) a condition caused by deficiency of vitamin D, especially in infancy and childhood, with disturbance of normal ossification. The disease is marked by bending and distortion of the bones under muscular action, by the formation of nodular enlargements on the ends and sides of the bones...
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    rickets
    A disease due to vitamin D deficiency and characterized by overproduction and deficient calcification of osteoid tissue, with associated skeletal deformities, disturbances in growth, hypocalcemia, and sometimes tetany; usually accompanied by irritability, listlessness, and generalized muscular weakness; fractures are frequent. Syn: rachitis, infant...
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    Rickets
    A disease of young children that is caused by a deficiency in Vitamin D and/or inadequate amounts of calcium. The deficiency results in defective bone growth, a large head, bowed legs, knock-knees, crooked spine and limbs and swollen, protruding abdomen.
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    rickets
    rickets or rachitis (rukī'tis) , bone disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin D or calcium. Essential in regulating calcium and phosphorus absorption by the body, vitamin D can be formed in the skin by ultraviolet rays contained in sunlight; it can also be consumed in such foods as fish ...
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