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rickets

noun
🔊/ˈrɪkɪts/
🔊/ˈrɪkɪts/
 [uncountable]
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  1. a disease of children caused by a lack of good food that makes the bones become soft and badly formed, especially in the legs佝偻病Topics Illnessc2
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: perhaps an alteration of Greek rhakhitis, from rhakhis ‘spine’.