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Rachitic

adjective
1.
Affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets.  Synonym: rickety.  "A rachitic patient"






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"Rachitic" Quotes from Famous Books



... fossa of the humerus for the reception of the coronoid process being also filled up with a similar bony growth. At the same time, the olecranon is curved strongly downwards. 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. When the left ulna is compared with the right radius, it might at first sight be concluded that the bones respectively belonged ...
— On Some Fossil Remains of Man • Thomas H. Huxley



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