(n.) Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets.
(n.) A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lipid composition and structure of low- and high-density lipoproteins (LDL and HDL) have been studied in children with the vitamin D-deficient rachitis.
(2) Indices of oxygen supply are studied in preadolescent rats with experimental rachitis.
(3) The submicroscopic organization and activity of acid phosphatase and catalase in lysosomes and peroxisomes of the rat hepatocytes were studied with experimental rachitis.
(4) In order to optimize the rachitis-prophylaxis in the GDR we comment on the problems and dangers by vitamin-D-overdosages on the basis of animal-experimental and clinical examinations.
(5) In this case manifestation of the tissue hypoxia in animals with experimental rachitis weakens and at the same time metabolic disturbances are eliminated.
(6) The question of the relation of these findings to the inactivity, osteomalacia and changes in metabolism in rachitis was discussed.
(7) Biochemical aspects of the development of the 3 different forms of genetically conditioned rachitis are shown.
(8) Content of glycogen and lactic acid was decreased in sceletal muscles of growing male rats during the acute periof of experimental rachitis.
(9) The morphometric examination showed muscle fibre diameters 8--24 mu less than those of healthy control rats in correlation with the degree of rachitis.
(10) Disturbances in transport, capillary-tissue diffusion and oxygen utilization by tissues of the brain, liver and skeletal muscles correlating with a degree of the rachitis gravity are revealed.
(11) It is determined that total and free activity of acid phosphatase in the liver tissue and certain lysosomes with rachitis increases whereas the catalase activity in the tissue and certain peroxisomes decreases.
(12) It is established that under experimental rachitis intensity of the radioactive label incorporation into soluble collagen is 1.7 times as low as in the norm.
(13) The data obtained suggest that excess of phosphorus is apparently important for pathogenesis of rachitis and the optimal ratio Ca : P should not be ignored in child diet.
(14) UV-irradiation of animals suffering from rachitis intensifies cholesterol synthesis in skin.
(15) The diagnosis of a hypophosphatemic vitamin-D-resistant rachitis in this child could only be established with certainty during the course of the following months.
(16) Radiologically and chemically, a rachitis was found which clearly improved following administration of 600,000 U. vitamin D3.
(17) osteogenesis imperfecta or rachitis), but especially when bone tumors or tumorlike changes are present.
(18) In order to avoid a potential danger of arteriosclerosis the rachitis-prophylaxis in infants and babies should be taken up with physiological vitamin-D-dosages.
(19) Potassium orotate and guanine are established to accelerate the duodenum physiological response of chickens with experimental rachitis to administration of vitamin D3 in the in vivo experiments.
(20) The condition can be distinguished from Mb Blount, prenatal genu varum, hypophosphataemia, rachitis, and post-traumatic genu varum in its course, roentgenological picture, and laboratory examination.