rickets

Significado (Inglês)

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

Conceitos

raquitismo

Sinônimos

rachitis

consumption

scurvy

malnutrition

Glisson’s disease

Traduções

rachitisme

raquitismo

Rachitis

rachitismo

rachitis

rachitide

Engelse ziekte

كساح

raquitis

raşitizm

raquitisme

englische Krankheit

rickets

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɹɪkɪts/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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.