rickets

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

A disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of ricket

Conceptes

raquitisme

raquitis

Sinònims

rachitis

consumption

scurvy

malnutrition

Glisson’s disease

Traduccions

rachitisme

raquitismo

Rachitis

rachitismo

raquitismo

rachitis

Engelse ziekte

rachitide

كساح

raşitizm

englische Krankheit

raquitis

ραχιτισμός

ραχίτιδα

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈɹɪkɪts/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Unknown. Originally a local name for the disease in Dorset and Somerset, England. Occasionally postulated to be derived from a Dorsetian dialectal term *rucket (“to breathe with difficulty, wheeze”), but the semantic connection is tenuous. See rachitis, but the medical name was chosen purposefully by English physician Daniel Whistler from phonetic similarity to rickets.