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rachitis
Part of speech: NounThe diseased state of the bone's called rickets; in bot., a disease producing abortion in the fruit or seed.
Usage examples "rachitis":- Of these predicted types beri- beri was the only one to be established in 1913. Scurvy has now been added to the fold and rickets or rachitis seems well on the way to acceptance though the specific vitamine absent in this case is not yet positively identified. - "The Vitamine Manual", Walter H. Eddy.
- He considered that the moxa must be admitted, without contradiction, to be the remedy par excellence against rachitis. - "Psychotherapy", James J. Walsh.