different between ricketiness vs rickets
ricketiness
English
Etymology
rickety +? -ness
Noun
ricketiness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being rickety.
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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): /???k?ts/
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
- ricketiness
- rickety
Translations
See also
- osteomalacia
- rachitic
Anagrams
- restick, sticker, tickers
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