ricketicadj.
/rɪˈkɛtɪk/, U.S. /rɪˈkɛdɪk/ Medicine.
Of or relating to rickets; suffering from or affected by rickets; = rachitic adj. 1.
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1884 D. L. Roberts Student's Guide Pract. Midwifery (ed. 3) i. 14/2 Dr C. J. Leopold, in his exhaustive treatise on the ‘Ricketic Pelvis’ [Ger. rachitische Becken], states that the characteristic peculiarities of a rickety pelvis are not diminished by a more or less marked skoliosis of the vertebral column.
1907 Med. Times 35 74/1 Any disease will have a fertile soil in a ricketic child.
1972 Lancet 20 May 1113/2 A biochemist friend..is campaigning for the use of ‘ricketic’ as the proper adjective for rickets.
2006 Seminars Arthritis & Rheumatism 36 34/2 In their early experiments, dietary restriction of calcium and vitamin D was shown to induce ricketic features.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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