rickets

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

rachitisme

Synonymes

rachitis

consumption

scurvy

malnutrition

Glisson’s disease

Traductions

Rachitis

raquitismo

raquitismo

rachitismo

rachitis

Engelse ziekte

rachitide

كساح

raşitizm

raquitisme

englische Krankheit

raquitis

rickets

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɹɪkɪts/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.