(a.) Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rachitic bone lesions were only partially corrected by the high-Ca diet.
(2) Demineralized rachitic bone (RB) implanted into normal host rats resulted in cartilage and bone induction similar to that seen for normal bone (NB) implants.
(3) In vitro binding of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25-(OH)D3) and 1alpha,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25-(OH)2D3) was studied in the duodenal mucosa cytosol of rachitic rats: both 25-(OH)D3 and 1,25-(OH)2D3 bind to a macromolecule (sedimentation coefficient 5.5 to 6 S in low or high ionic strength) with a high affinity (KD at 4 degrees C = 1.2 X 10-9M and 2 x 10-9M, respectively).
(4) Measurements of 45Ca uptake by rachitic cartilage slices from metastable calcium phosphates solution also indicated inhibition of calcification by heat.
(5) Some of the factors predisposing to rickets were assessed in the rachitic children and in age-matched controls.
(6) The biological activity of 11 alpha-methyl-1 alpha,25-(OH)2D3 closely resembled that of the natural hormone on normal and leukemic cell proliferation and bone resorption, whereas its in vivo effect on calcium metabolism of the rachitic chick was about 50% of that of 1 alpha,25-(OH)2D3.
(7) In the rachitic animal, arterioles, venules, and capillaries were found adjacent to the growth plate, either directly apposed to the hypertrophic chondrocytes or separated from them by bone-forming cells.
(8) The coefficient of correlation between adult height (expressed as standard deviation score) and the average rachitic activity or score was -0.796 (p less than 0.01), indicating that adult height varied inversely with the severity of the disease.
(9) Severe demineralization (greater than -3 SD) was found in four rachitic patients with tubulointerstitial disease.
(10) Rachitic changes were detectable by light microscopy and microradiography in chicks whose skeletons appeared normal roentgenographically.
(11) Parvalbumin was found to be independent of the vitamin D status of the animal since its concentration remained unchanged in kidney extracts of normal, rachitic and vitamin D-replete rats.
(12) In the present studies, we tested the ability of rachitic versus normal rat growth plate chondrocytes in micromass or monolayer primary cultures to produce MVs.
(13) These intestinal complexes were less well developed, decreased in number, and quite often absent, in the apical cytoplasm of absorptive cells from rachitic chicks.
(14) The addition of calcium-binding protein to rachitic mucosa prior to homogenization does not yield a Triton X-100 solubilizable form, indicating that bound calcium-binding protein in vitamin D-replete intestine is not due to adsorption or vesicular entrapment of soluble calcium-binding protein.
(15) Although the rachitic cartilage does mineralize, discontinuities in the mineral distribution are much more severe, with the general failure of fusion of adjacent mineral clusters.
(16) Rachitic changes were induced in young rats by giving dietary Mn (2%) or by phosphate depletion (0.02% P) for 25 days.
(17) Radioisotope studies have shown that collagen synthesized in the shafts of bones from rachitic rats and chicks is similar in chain composition to that normally synthesized.
(18) Indeed these vascular channels appeared to be a basic architectural feature of normal cartilage, although disorganized in the rachitic state.
(19) This hereditary syndrome of renal hypophosphataemia differs from the common familial X-linked hypophosphataemia and the recently described autosomal recessive hypophosphataemic rickets with hypercalciuria by its dominant mode of inheritance; it differs from hypophosphataemic non-rachitic bone disease by the elevated serum 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D levels and hypercalciuria.
(20) After ultracentrifugation of C(f1) of normal, rachitic, and healing rachitic animals, nonprotein-bound calcium (Ca(f)) and phosphate (P(if)) were determined on supernatant fluids.
Rickety
Definition:
(a.) Affected with rickets.
(a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Faced with the realities of Britain's rickety finances, chancellors and shadow chancellors of all parties have frequently turned parsimonious.
(2) The unrepentant immigration minister, James Brokenshire, was defending in public for the first time the decision taken by the home secretary, Theresa May, to refuse to support future search and rescue operations of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rickety unseaworthy boats.
(3) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
(4) My Year Off became my rickety bridge back to the everyday world, in which I was relearning a way of life, guided by Sarah's loving care.
(5) Every morning Mohammed Gurdan rises early and climbs the rickety ladder to the fourth floor of his home in Kashgar's old city.
(6) Take the train to Lisbon for custard tarts, rickety trams and the fantastic Oceanarium ( oceanario.pt ).
(7) They will face the task of assembling and keeping together a rickety alliance of their own.
(8) Sampson was “amazed by the apparent casualness” of the rickety offices in Tudor Street, which “seemed more like a family charity or an eccentric college than a commercial newspaper”.
(9) One of the legacies from those pop art days is her use of brightly coloured household paint, slapped on to bits of wood that are then built into rickety scaffolds.
(10) In the 1980s migrants used to slip through a rickety fence but now it felt like a steel fortress with control towers, cameras and sensors.
(11) Many experts fear that Britain has failed to rebalance its economy over recent years, with the current recovery based on the rickety framework of consumer spending and the housing recovery.
(12) Thousands of migrants have risked their lives in rough winter seas in the last week as they tried to reach Italy from Libya, among them reluctant travellers who were forced into rickety boats at gunpoint.
(13) A business meeting in Tunisia prevented them staying to see Pope Francis celebrate a mass on the island, devoted to the migrants who made the dangerous crossing to southern Europe from Libya in cheap inflatable motorboats and rickety fishing vessels.
(14) Even the most rickety-looking outfit will be doling out little bites of perfection: El Taco Yucateo , for instance, where we have panuchos as brightly coloured as a Keith Haring painting: yellow taco, chicken, bright pink cebollas curtidas (pickled onion), green avocado, earthy black beans.
(15) Rickety stairs lead up into black bordello-inspired corridors, while the romantic rooms are individually decorated with flea market furniture, swirling frescoes and erotic photos.
(16) They won’t care that we are Hazara.” Me, Salim*, Hassan and Ali, along with 75 other people, had been lost at sea for four days after our rickety boat’s engine had finally given way.
(17) "The studios are very old and rickety," said Johannah Dyer, the chief executive of independent production company Hotbed Media, which filmed Channel 4 gameshow Win My Wage in ITV's Leeds studios.
(18) And even if he is on song, can Uruguay's average midfield actually get him the ball and can their rickety defence keep England at bay?
(19) A place of 99¢ stores and cathedrals to caffeine; rickety taco stands and gourmet cheese shops; rundown 7-Elevens and pristine organic juice bars; car repair garages and craft stores.
(20) Five years later, in the municipal museum in Venice, Harrington summoned the rickety old lift.