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RICKETS

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(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus

Synonyms:

rachitis; rickets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("rickets" is a kind of...):

avitaminosis; hypovitaminosis (any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins)

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Also called juvenile rickets, rachitis, and rickets.

(Infantile rickets, NCI Dictionary)

Also called infantile rickets, rachitis, and rickets.

(Juvenile rickets, NCI Dictionary)

Secondary hyperparathyroidism is caused by the chronic stimulation of the parathyroid glands in patients with chronic renal failure, rickets, and malabsorption syndromes.

(Hyperparathyroidism, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with slight increase of the plasma cystine, cystinuria, aminoaciduria, glycosuria, polyuria, hypophosphatemia, rickets, and renal tubular dysfunction. —2004

(Cystinosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called adult rickets.

(Osteomalacia, NCI Dictionary)

The skull was of enormous capacity, and yet as I looked down I saw to my amazement that the figure of the man was small and frail, twisted in the shoulders and back like one who has suffered from rickets in his childhood.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is seen in rickets.

(Metaphyseal Widening, NCI Thesaurus)

In contrast, lighter pigmentation of people in northern countries may increase the production of vitamin D3 needed to prevent rickets, a softening and weakening of bones in children, usually due to inadequate vitamin D.

(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)

Clinical manifestations include severe skeletal defects resembling vitamin D-resistant rickets, failure of the calvarium to calcify, dyspnea, cyanosis, vomiting, constipation, renal calcinosis, failure to thrive, disorders of movement, beading of the costochondral junction, and rachitic bone changes.

(Hypophosphatasia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Factors that contribute to the development of neonatal rickets include calcium, phosphorus, or calciferol deficiency.

(Neonatal Rickets, NCI Thesaurus)