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rachitic, a.|rəˈkɪtɪk|
Also rh-, and (irreg.) -etic.
[f. rachit-is + -ic. Cf. F. rachitique.]
a. Affected with rickets, rickety.
b. Connected with, pertaining to, rickets.
1797Nicholson Jrnl. Nat. Phil. I. 175 The nature of rachitic acid. Ibid. In general the bile is wanting in rachitic infants. 1822–34Good's Stud. Med. (ed. 4) II. 486 A constitution naturally feeble and rachetic. 1855Househ. Words 25 Aug. 89 Unfortunate little objects..with rachitic limbs. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. (1878) 919 The shape of the chest in rachitic children becomes remarkably modified.
transf.1864R. F. Burton Dahome I. 25 The youngest, and the most rachitic of Great Britain's large..family of colonies. |