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n. 佝偻病 [医] 佝偻病

发音

其它 /ˈɹɪkɪts/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones.

    佝偻病

    不可数 医学
v.
  1. 1.

    third-person singular simple present indicative of ricket

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

rachitis

上位词 2

avitaminosis hypovitaminosis

词源

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.

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