rickets
noun/ˈrɪkɪts/
/ˈrɪkɪts/
[uncountable]- a disease of children caused by a lack of good food that makes the bones become soft and badly formed, especially in the legsTopics Health problemsc2Word Originmid 17th cent.: perhaps an alteration of Greek rhakhitis, from rhakhis ‘spine’.
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