rickets

Significado (Inglés)

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

Conceptos

raquitismo

raquitis

rickettsia

tipo de microorganismos

Sinónimos

rachitis

consumption

scurvy

malnutrition

Glisson’s disease

Traducciones

rachitisme

Rachitis

rachitismo

raquitismo

rachitis

كساح

rachitide

Engelse ziekte

englische Krankheit

raquitisme

raşitizm

rachitis

rickets

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɹɪkɪts/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.