rickets

English

Etymology

Unknown. Originally a local name for the disease in Dorset and Somerset, England. Occasionally postulated to be derived from a Dorsetian dialectal term *rucket (“to breathe with difficulty, wheeze”), but the semantic connection is tenuous. See rachitis, but the medical name was chosen purposefully by English physician Daniel Whistler from phonetic similarity to rickets.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪkəts/

Noun

rickets (uncountable)

(pathology) A disorder of infancy and early childhood caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft bones.

Synonyms

rachitis, rhachitis

Related terms

Translations

disorder of infancy

Asturian: raquitismu m
Breton: lec’h (br) m
Catalan: raquitisme m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 佝僂病 (zh), 佝偻病 (zh) (gōulóubìng)
Czech: křivice f
Danish: rakitis (da) c, engelsk syge c
Dutch: rachitis (nl), Engelse ziekte f
Esperanto: rakito, rakitismo
Finnish: riisitauti (fi)
French: rachitisme (fr) m
Galician: raquitismo m
Georgian: რაქიტი (rakiṭi)
German: Rachitis f, (obsolete) Rhachitis f,englische Krankheit f
Greek: ραχίτιδα (el) f (rachítida)
Gujarati: સુકતાન (suktān)
Hindi: सूखा रोग (sūkhā rog)
Hungarian: angolkór (hu)
Ido: rakito (io)
Japanese: くる病, 佝僂病 (くるびょう, kurubyō)

Kannada: ಕುಟಿಲವಾತ (kuṭilavāta)
Kazakh: рахит (raxït)
Korean: 구루병 (gurubyeong, 佝僂病)
Kyrgyz: итий (ky) (itiy)
Malagasy: malemy taolana (mg)
Manx: çhenney m
Maori: mate kōiwi takarepa
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rakitis m, rakitt m, engelsk syke m, engelsk sjuke m

Nynorsk: rakitt m, engelsk sjuke f, m, engelsk sykje f
Oriya: ରିକେଟ (rikeṭô)
Portuguese: raquitismo (pt) m
Romanian: rahitism (ro) n
Russian: рахи́т (ru) m (raxít)
Spanish: raquitismo (es) m
Swedish: rakit c, rakitis (sv) c, engelska sjukan (sv) c
Tagalog: rakitis
Tamil: என்புருக்கி நோய் (eṉpurukki nōy)
Turkish: raşitizm (tr)
Volapük: ragit

Anagrams

restick, sticker, tickers

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