rickets
Meaning
Noun
- A disorder of infancy and early childhood caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft bones.
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Origin
- Unknown. Originally a local name for the disease in Dorset and Somerset, England. Occasionally postulated to be derived from a Dorsetian dialectal term *rucket, 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.
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