Late Rickets# or #Rachitis Adolescentium# is met with at any age from nine to seventeen, and is generally believed to be due to a recrudescence of rickets which had been present in childhood.
When rachitis develops in the second half of the first year or later, with the general emaciation the skin appears very thin, flabby, unelastic.
In those, however, in which rachitis is really developed in the cranium a peculiar condition is found.
Defective nutrition, diseases of the lungs, and intestinal affections which gave rise to or accompanied rachitis will complicate the prognosis, though rachitis itself, as far as the bones were concerned, be no longer in existence.
Neither requires the presence of rachitis in one or both of the parents.
Under no circumstances, however, ought we to lose sight of the fact that, though rachitis may disappear, the causes leading to it may still linger on.
Early foetal rachitis is probably dependent upon a defective development of the very first cartilaginous deposits and the first osseous nuclei; thus, many of the congenital synostoses find a ready explanation.
The belief that maxillaryrachitis is now and then met without any other symptom of rachitis I do not share.
Meat-soups, mainly of beef, and of mutton in complications with diarrhoea, ought to be given at once when the diagnosis of rachitis becomes clear or probable.
In all of these cases it is better to look upon rachitis as only one of the forms of general mal-nutrition, and to speak of inheritance of the disposition rather than of the disease.
This anomaly, as stated above, is sometimes visible through life, though in the large majority of cases after recovery from rachitis has taken place this asymmetry will gradually disappear.
Evidently, the period in which rachitisis developed exerts its influence on the teething process.
But not in every case of rachitis is there a retardation in the process of teething.
A case of rachitis of undoubtedly congenital nature has been reported by Chiari.
Rachitis is principally lack of lime in the food, which causes parts of the bones to remain soft instead of becoming rigid.
Softening of the bones, known as osteomalacia, curvature of the spine, rachitisand many other terrible conditions of disease would not be known to humanity if proper precaution were taken in time.
In the progressive development of the disease, the softened cartilage grows and protrudes everywhere, especially in the thorax, such as "rachitis rosary.
Rachitis should be fought at the time the child develops in the womb, by properly feeding the mother and preparing her to give it, after birth, healthy milk, with all the elements necessary for bone structure.
Two affections, rachitis and scrofula, frequently co-exist, and the same dietary is appropriate for both.
The symptoms of rachitis become apparent at the pelvis and at the wide open, soft parts of the skull, the unossified fontanelles.
Comarmond, of Lyons, relates the case of a female infant, who was perfectly developed at the age of twenty-seven months, but she sank under rachitis when she had attained her twelfth year.
Jenner asserts that rachitisprevents the effect of vaccination; and Hildebrand assures us that phthysical patients never experience epidemic fevers unless of the most severe character.
Analogous to rachitis is achondroplasia, or the so called fetal rickets--a disease in which deformity results from an arrest, absence, or perversion of the normal process of enchondral ossification.
In rachitis epiphyseal swellings are seen at the wrists and ankle-joints, and in superior cases at the ends of the phalanges of the fingers and toes.
Rachitis or rickets is not a disease of adult life, but of infancy and childhood, and never occurs after the age of puberty.
She was never the victim of rachitis or like disease, but died of syphilis in the Colonial Hospital.
Scurvy has now been added to the fold and rickets or rachitis seems well on the way to acceptance though the specific vitamine absent in this case is not yet positively identified.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rachitis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anemia; beriberi; dermatitis; goiter; malnutrition; pellagra; rickets; scurvy
