The term rickets comes from the Old English word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

Low levels of vitamin D are associated with rickets, which is a condition of weakened deformed bones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily News - News] Reference

Pray, Mrs. B., does not the disease in the bones of children, called the rickets, proceed from a deficiency of phosphat of lime?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference

"Lack of vitamin D may lead to a condition called rickets, especially in children, in which bones and teeth are weak," explains White.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mensfitness.com] Reference

In many parts of India, animals suffer from deficiency diseases such as rickets and anaemia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 12] Reference

To call it "rickets" is to place an undue emphasis upon the bony changes which, though common, are by no means invariable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Child] Reference

A deficiency can lead to bone problems such as rickets, especially in children with darker complexions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

She said the fractures could have been linked to a bone disease such as rickets, which Bailey was never tested for.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

The body needs the sun to manufacture vitamin D and a deficiency can lead to serious problems such as rickets and osteoporosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

If the chicken had rickets, that is.    From Wordnik.com.  [World's Worst Pictionary Players] Reference

Studies on the experimental production of rickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

They are apt to develop rickets and sometimes scurvy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

PRITCHARD, E.: The causation and treatment of rickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

The effect of this failure is commonly described as rickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

Excessive perspiration when sleeping is an early symptom of rickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

M.CKAY, H.M. M.: Observations on rickets in an out-patient department.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

Nothing says "fun for the whole family" like cholera, rickets and lockjaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught In The 'Iron Triangle'] Reference

HESS, A. F.: The rôle of fat-soluble vitamine and its relation to rickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

The effect of cod-liver oil administered to rats with experimental rickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

H.TCH.SON, H. S.: Is fat starvation a causal factor in production of rickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

The production of rickets and similar diseases in the rat by different diets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

Everyone was getting rickets and stuff like this in the industrial revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [London's Gardens: Allotments for the People] Reference

It is increased also by pain in rickets, and especially in some affections of the lungs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

The various views on the causes of rickets are set forth more in detail in Chapter VIII.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

They do not fight disease well for this reason; they are apt to develop rickets and scurvy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Beatrice Annie was suffering from a disease very common with poor children, called rickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Book of London] Reference

AND UNGER, L. J.: The clinical rôle of the fat-soluble vita - mine; its relation to rickets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

It is of temporary duration, and usually clears up when the symptoms of rickets have been eradicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

It is also much distended with gas in rickets, and is constantly so in chronic indigestion in later childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mother and Her Child] Reference

PLAYERS Conventional Wisdom Mikhail Gorbachev Down About as popular as rickets and may not last as long as Saddam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soviet Edition] Reference

So, does that mean you have to choose between the risk of skin cancer or the risk of rickets (and other ailments) for your baby?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baby’s got the vitamin D blues] Reference

Poor as well as abandoned, Simpson suffered from rickets, a calcium and vitamin D deficiency normally seen in underdeveloped countries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day & Night] Reference

A predisposition toward rickets, and injuries, may be prevented by feeding a proper ration, and permitting the animal to take exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference