rickets

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ricket form-of,indicative,present,singular,third-person

词源

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.
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