Looking for sentences and phrases with the word rachitis? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
So, he is vulnerable to suffer from vitamin D defeciency, which is necessary for the growth of bones, resulting in the causation of an illness, called rachitis.
Examples from Classical Literature
The commonest deformities of the thorax are those associated with rachitis.
Defective calcification of the forming bone is one of the principal characteristics of rachitis.
The head, however, is liable to exhibit symptoms of rachitis at a very early period of life.
It has been erroneously confounded by some writers with bronchocele and rachitis, from both of which it is totally distinct.
The symptoms of rachitis become apparent at the pelvis and at the wide open, soft parts of the skull, the unossified fontanelles.
Glisson knew of it, and therefore looked for the cause of rachitis in the process of dentition.
In connection with rachitis and scrofula a ravenous appetite is often manifested.
Without these affections of the osseous system the diagnosis of rachitis is not complete.
Chlorine was found to be diminished in rachitis by Baginsky.
It is in the period of rapid development that rachitis is observed.
The etiology of rachitis must be studied from two points of view.
It is also due to the changes wrought by rachitis in the pelvis.
Gerhardt looks upon rachitis as one of the causes of tetany.
