(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 in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.
Example Sentences:
(1) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(2) Phenobarbital did not retard growth nor impede the response to vitamin D therapy of concomitant rickets.
(3) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
(4) In a large commercial goat farm rickets-like symptoms were diagnosed in goat kids.
(5) One of the metabolites proved to be as active as the parent vitamin in curing rickets and was found in large amounts in liver, blood, and bone.
(6) The influence of extra phosphorus (P) and calcium (Ca) on the incidence of rickets was studied in 40 infants with a birthweight below 1.5 kg.
(7) The healing of rickets, the stimulation of intestinal Ca and P transport, the effect on bone mineral, and the induction of renal calcifications have been examined.
(8) It has been confirmed that the foetal parathyroid glands are important in development and that thyroparathyroidectomy (TXPTX) of the ovine foetus with thyroxine (T4) replacement leads to hypocalcaemia, retarded skeletal development, depressed calcification and rickets, relative to thyroidectomy plus T4 replacement.
(9) A boy with Lowe syndrome who manifested renal Fanconi syndrome by severe hypophosphatemic rickets, failure to thrive, and metabolic acidosis failed to improve with conventional bolus therapy of phosphate and bicarbonate.
(10) Some of the factors predisposing to rickets were assessed in the rachitic children and in age-matched controls.
(11) Vitamin D deficiency contributes to bone demineralization and rickets.
(12) Lymphocyte cell lines were established from five patients with vitamin D-dependent rickets, type II (VDDR-II).
(13) Clinical signs of rickets are still absent at this time, while an increased activity of the serum alkaline phosphatase signals the beginning of the illness.
(14) The majority of this thickening was due to an increase in the zone of proliferation, identical to that which occurs in calcium-deficiency rickets.
(15) A 22-month-old girl with cystinotic rickets was given 1 microgram 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25-DHCC) daily in addition to standard treatment.
(16) The patients were divided into 5 groups, 1) Osteomalacia and rickets 42 cases, showing typical changes of bone in X-ray films.
(17) In addition, the improved growth and healing of rickets further attest to the efficacy of the new treatment.
(18) In contrast, it appears that doses of either drug that are curative in D deficiency rickets are only partly active in PDR.
(19) During the latter half of an infant's first year, adequate mineral and vitamin D intakes may be important not only for the prevention of rickets but also for the attainment of optimal adult peak bone mass.
(20) Renal tubular dysfunctions with secondary rickets may be lacking altogether, even in chronic patients.
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.