rachitic

English

Etymology

From rachitis +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈkɪtɪk/
Audio (UK) (file)

Adjective

rachitic (comparative more rachitic, superlative most rachitic)

(medicine) Pertaining to or affected by rickets. [from 18th c.]
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 761:
  Nor was there time to do much more than distribute some sweet to the pallid rachitic children.
Feeble, in a weak or precarious condition. [from 19th c.]
- 1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay:
  a tall, narrow-shouldered and rachitic house in a little obscure square.
- December 8 1947, "FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Bold Gamble" Time Magazine
  nations with over-valued rachitic currencies
- 1983 [1981], Crowley, John, “The Fairies' Parliment”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 576:
  Even as he thought this he saw, leaping from the last stair of a rachitic escalator, down there, a blond girl in a blue dress, bright in the brown darkness.

Derived terms

rachitic pelvis
rachitic rosary

Translations

of, relating to, or affected by rickets

Bulgarian: рахитичен (rahitičen)
Catalan: raquític (ca)
German: rachitisch (de)
Hungarian: angolkóros (hu)
Italian: rachitico (it)

resembling or suggesting the condition of one suffering from rickets

Catalan: raquític (ca)
Italian: rachitico (it)

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French: ^{(please verify)} rachitique (fr)

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