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Definition: Rachitis |
RachitisNoun1. Inflammation of the vertebral column. 2. Childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | A disturbance of the calcium/phosphorus metabolism which occurs in the growing child as a result of vitamin-D deficiency. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: RachitisSynonym: rickets (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rachitis |
| English words defined with "rachitis": Rhachitis. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rachitis": Rachitic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rachitis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (rachitis, rickets), Hungarian (rickets), Latin (D-resistant, Vitamin D, vitamin D-resistant ricket). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rachitis | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rachitis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rakitizëm, rakit (rickets). (various references) | |
Arabic | كساح, تعقد المفاصل (rickets), خرع (rickets), خراعة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рахит (rickets). (various references) | |
Danish | rachitis (rickets, Vitamin-D-deficiency), engelsk syge (rickets, Vitamin-D-deficiency). (various references) | |
Dutch | rachitis (rickets, vitamin D-resistant ricket, Vitamin-D-deficiency), engelse ziekte (rickets, Vitamin-D-deficiency). (various references) | |
French | rachitisme. (various references) | |
German | Rachitis (rickets). (various references) | |
Greek | ραχίτισ (rickets), ραχίτις (rickets, Vitamin-D-deficiency), ραχίτιδα (rickets). (various references) | |
Hebrew | רככת (rickets). (various references) | |
Hungarian | angolkór (rickets). (various references) | |
Italian | rachitismo (rickets). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | achitisray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | raquitismo (rickets). (various references) | |
Romanian | rahitism (rickets). (various references) | |
Russian | рахит (rickets). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rahitis (rickets). (various references) | |
Spanish | raquitismo (rickets), raquitis (rickets), carencia de vitamina D (rickets, Vitamin-D-deficiency). (various references) | |
Swedish | rakitis. (various references) | |
Turkish | raşitizm (rickets). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рахіт (rickets). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-i-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: satiric. | |
-2 letters: airths, chairs, charts, crista, iatric, ischia, rachis, racist, starch, triacs. | |
-3 letters: airth, airts, aitch, astir, carts, chair, chars, chart, chats, chias, chits, crash, hairs, harts, ratch, rishi, saith, scart, shirt, sitar, stair, stich, stria, tachs, tahrs, tarsi, trash, triac. | |
-4 letters: acts, airs, airt, aits, arch, arcs, arts, asci, cars, cart, cash, cast. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-i-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ahistoric, archivist, charities, trichinas. | |
+2 letters: aphoristic, archaistic, archivists, arthritics, chairlifts, historical, rachitides, tracheitis, triarchies, trichiases, trichiasis. | |
+3 letters: ahistorical, anarchistic, arithmetics, charismatic, chiralities, chrismation, christiania, diastrophic, eucharistic, harmonicist, interchains, psychiatric, thiouracils, unchristian. | |
+4 letters: anorthositic, antihysteric, antistrophic, brachiations, cantharidins, charismatics, chrismations, christianias, chromaticism, diaphoretics, dichromatism, dictatorship, haircuttings, harmonicists, historically, inheritances, intrapsychic, matriarchies, misanthropic, patriarchies, periphrastic, physiocratic, psychiatries, psychiatrist, radiochemist, rhetoricians, rhizoctonias, saccharinity, scintigraphy, tracheitises, trierarchies, unhistorical. | |
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