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单词 rickets
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Definition of rickets in English:

rickets

noun ˈrɪkɪtsˈrɪkɪts
Medicine
  • mass noun, treated as singular or plural A disease of children caused by vitamin D deficiency, characterized by imperfect calcification, softening, and distortion of the bones typically resulting in bow legs.

    〔医〕佝偻病

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Exclusively breastfed infants are at increased risk of vitamin D deficiency and rickets.
    • 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.
    • Its founder, Joseph Pilates, was born in Dusseldorf in 1880 and despite being a rather sickly child who suffered from rickets, asthma and rheumatic fever, he lived to the age of 87.
    • Renal tubular defects result in a loss of calcium and phosphate in the urine leading to children with deficient mineralization of growing bone and rickets.
    • Bowleggedness beyond the age of 2 or bowleggedness that only occurs in one leg but not the other can be the sign of a larger problem, such as rickets or Blount disease.

Origin

Mid 17th century: perhaps an alteration of Greek rhakhitis (see rachitis).

Definition of rickets in US English:

rickets

nounˈrɪkɪtsˈrikits
Medicine
  • treated as singular or plural A disease of children caused by vitamin D deficiency, characterized by imperfect calcification, softening, and distortion of the bones typically resulting in bow legs.

    〔医〕佝偻病

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Exclusively breastfed infants are at increased risk of vitamin D deficiency and rickets.
    • 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.
    • Bowleggedness beyond the age of 2 or bowleggedness that only occurs in one leg but not the other can be the sign of a larger problem, such as rickets or Blount disease.
    • Its founder, Joseph Pilates, was born in Dusseldorf in 1880 and despite being a rather sickly child who suffered from rickets, asthma and rheumatic fever, he lived to the age of 87.
    • Renal tubular defects result in a loss of calcium and phosphate in the urine leading to children with deficient mineralization of growing bone and rickets.

Origin

Mid 17th century: perhaps an alteration of Greek rhakhitis (see rachitis).

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