This composition becomes an absolute essential in all cases of imperfect bone structure, such as rachitis, or rickets, constitutional disease of children, osteomalacia, tuberculosis of the bones, deformity of bone structure, such as curvature of the spine, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
In connection with rachitis and scrofula a ravenous appetite is often manifested. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
Two affections, rachitis and scrofula, frequently co-exist, and the same dietary is appropriate for both. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
The symptoms of rachitis become apparent at the pelvis and at the wide open, soft parts of the skull, the unossified fontanelles. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
I used "rickets" to refer to symptoms and not to the etiology of rachitis, just as I might say that Johnson's asthma was produced by kidney trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Pope's] Reference
In the progressive development of the disease, the softened cartilage grows and protrudes everywhere, especially in the thorax, such as "rachitis rosary.". From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
Occasionally one may observe in suckling colts outward luxation of the patella wherein there is history of navel infection and no marked evidence of rachitis is present. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
At school, I was taught that rachitis results from an inadequate absorption of calcium or phosphate, although a lack of vitamin D is generally what leads to that deficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Pope's] Reference
Scurvy has now been added to the fold and rickets or rachitis seems well on the way to acceptance though the specific vitamine absent in this case is not yet positively identified. From Wordnik.com. [The Vitamine Manual] Reference
Softening of the bones, known as osteomalacia, curvature of the spine, rachitis and many other terrible conditions of disease would not be known to humanity if proper precaution were taken in time. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
The research carried out in recent years, in which Windaus himself has also played a leading part, has revealed the very important fact that, on being irradiated with ultraviolet light, this ergosterol assumes exactly the same properties as the antirachitic vitamin, "vitamin D", i.e. it will cure rachitis. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1927 and 1928 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Appearance during life of the highest grade of rachitis: pseudoosteomalacia (Pippingskjöld). From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
She was never the victim of rachitis or like disease, but died of syphilis in the Colonial Hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
To excellent and secondhand maneuverable rachitis into the continence and damosel of the neurosis household. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
In rachitis epiphyseal swellings are seen at the wrists and ankle-joints, and in superior cases at the ends of the phalanges of the fingers and toes. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The history of rachitis, of melanosis, and of osteoporosis, as related to an abnormal frangibility of the bones, is a part of our common medical knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Figure 213 shows the appearance during life of a patient with the highest grade of rachitis, and it can be easily understood what a barrier to natural child-birth it would produce. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
The pathologists divide scoliosis into a myopathic variety, in which the trouble is a physiologic antagonism of the muscles; or osteopathic, ordinarily associated with rachitis, which latter variety is generally accountable for congenital scoliosis. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Pendulous belly of rachitis. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Pendulous belly of rachitis, fat and tympany. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Pendulous belly of rachitis (Cesarean section). From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
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