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Rickets meaning
A disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones.
Synonyms of Rickets
Using Rickets
- The main meaning on this page is: A disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones.
- Useful related words include: rachitis, avitaminosis, hypovitaminosis.
- In the example corpus, rickets often appears in combinations such as: of rickets, to rickets, rickets is.
Context around Rickets
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rickets
- In this selection, "rickets" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hypotheses, suffered, prevent, citation, osteomalacia and pellagra stand out and add context to how "rickets" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the rickets producing action and cases of rickets per year. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rickets" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rickets
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Chest X ray showing changes consistent with rickets. (8 words)
Phytic acid and the rickets-producing action of cereals. (9 words)
Rickets is among the most frequent childhood diseases in many developing countries. (12 words)
Persistent thick fog and heavy industrial smog permeating the city blocked out significant amounts of sunlight so much so that up to 80 percent of children at one time had varying degrees of rickets in one form or the other. (40 words)
His health records indicate that Kinsey received suboptimal exposure to sunlight (often the cause of rickets, before milk and other foods were fortified with vitamin D ) and lived in unsanitary conditions for at least part of his childhood. (38 words)
Diseases causing soft bones in infants, like hypophosphatasia or hypophosphatemia can also lead to rickets. citation Evolutionary considerations Vitamin D natural selection hypotheses: Rickets is often a result of Vitamin D3 deficiency. (32 words)
Example sentences (15)
Diseases causing soft bones in infants, like hypophosphatasia or hypophosphatemia can also lead to rickets. citation Evolutionary considerations Vitamin D natural selection hypotheses: Rickets is often a result of Vitamin D3 deficiency.
A lack of vitamin D in children can lead to rickets, a condition that causes bone pain, poor growth and soft, weak bones that can result in deformities.
A fifth were also unsure of the ways to boost vitamin D, which can be found in fish and meat and helps prevent bone deficiencies such as rickets.
Sadly, Gwen suffered rickets as a toddler, and the disease left her legs so badly misshapen that she spent her early years in orthopedic boots and leg braces.
Vitamin D is important in maintaining strong bones and helping prevent rickets, osteomalacia and osteoporosis.
Chest X ray showing changes consistent with rickets.
Children who do not get adequate amounts of vitamin D are at increased risk of rickets.
Funk proposed the hypothesis that other diseases, such as rickets, pellagra, coeliac disease, and scurvy could also be cured by vitamins.
His health records indicate that Kinsey received suboptimal exposure to sunlight (often the cause of rickets, before milk and other foods were fortified with vitamin D ) and lived in unsanitary conditions for at least part of his childhood.
Persistent thick fog and heavy industrial smog permeating the city blocked out significant amounts of sunlight so much so that up to 80 percent of children at one time had varying degrees of rickets in one form or the other.
Phytic acid and the rickets-producing action of cereals.
Rickets is among the most frequent childhood diseases in many developing countries.
Rickets was not defined as a specific medical condition until 1645, when an English physician Daniel Whistler gave the earliest known description of the disease.
The British Medical Journal reported in 2010 that doctors in Newcastle on Tyne saw 20 cases of rickets per year.
These percentages should be regarded as relative Vitamin D levels, and not as predicting evidence for development of rickets.
Common combinations with rickets
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of rickets 5×
- to rickets 2×
- rickets is 2×
- as rickets 2×