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Traditional English :: rickets
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rickets.html - n. (treated as sing. or pl.) a disease of children with softening of the bones (esp. the spine) and bow-legs, caused by a deficiency of vitamin D. [17th c.: orig. uncert., but assoc. by medical writers with Gk rhakhitis RACHITIS] |
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Traditional English :: rickettsia
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rickets.html - n. a parasitic micro-organism of the genus Rickettsia causing typhus and other febrile diseases. rickettsial adj. [mod.L f. H. T. Ricketts, Amer. pathologist d. 1910] |
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Traditional English :: rickety
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rickets.html - adj. 1 a insecure or shaky in construction; likely to collapse. b feeble. 2 a suffering from rickets. b resembling or of the nature of rickets. ricketiness n. [RICKETS + -Y(1)] |
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Traditional English :: rickets
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rickets.html - n. (treated as sing. or pl.) a disease of children with softening of the bones (esp. the spine) and bow-legs, caused by a deficiency of vitamin D. [17th c.: orig. uncert., but assoc. by medical writers with Gk rhakhitis RACHITIS] |
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Traditional English :: rickettsia
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rickets.html - n. a parasitic micro-organism of the genus Rickettsia causing typhus and other febrile diseases. rickettsial adj. [mod.L f. H. T. Ricketts, Amer. pathologist d. 1910] |
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Traditional English :: rickety
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rickets.html - adj. 1 a insecure or shaky in construction; likely to collapse. b feeble. 2 a suffering from rickets. b resembling or of the nature of rickets. ricketiness n. [RICKETS + -Y(1)] |
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