rickets

English

Etymology 1

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): /ˈɹɪkɪts/

Noun

rickets (uncountable)

1. (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

disorder of infancy

• Arabic: كُسَاح m (kusāḥ)
• Asturian: raquitismu m
• Breton: lec’h (br) m
• Bulgarian: рахит (bg) m (rahit)
• Burmese: အရိုးပျော့နာ (my) (a.rui:pyau.na)
• Catalan: raquitisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佝僂病／佝偻病 (zh) (gōulóubìng)

• Czech: křivice (cs) f
• Danish: rakitis (da) c, engelsk syge c
• Dutch: rachitis (nl), Engelse ziekte (nl) f
• Esperanto: rakito, rakitismo
• Finnish: riisitauti (fi)
• French: rachitisme (fr) m
• Galician: raquitismo m, enganido m, tangaraño (gl) m
• Georgian: რაქიტი (rakiṭi)
• German: Rachitis (de) f, (obsolete) Rhachitis f, englische Krankheit f
• Greek: ραχίτιδα (el) f (rachítida)
• Gujarati: સુકતાન (suktān)
• Hebrew: רַכֶּכֶת f (rakékhet)
• Hindi: सूखा रोग (sūkhā rog)
• Hungarian: angolkór (hu)
• Ido: rakito (io)
• Italian: rachitismo (it) m
• Japanese: くる病, 佝僂病 (ja) (くるびょう, kurubyō)
• Kannada: ಕುಟಿಲವಾತ (kuṭilavāta)
• Kazakh: рахит (raxit)
• Korean: 구루병(佝僂病) (gurubyeong)
• Kyrgyz: итий (ky) (itiy)
• Macedonian: рахитис m (rahitis)
• Malagasy: malemy taolana (mg)
• Manx: çhenney m
• Maori: mate kōiwi takarepa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rakitis m, rakitt m, engelsk syke m, engelsk sjuke m

  Nynorsk: rakitt m, engelsk sjuke f or m, engelsk sykje f

• Odia: ରିକେଟ (rikeṭô)
• Ottoman Turkish: قربه (kırba)
• Polish: krzywica (pl) f
• Portuguese: raquitismo (pt) m
• Romanian: rahitism (ro) n
• Russian: рахи́т (ru) m (raxít)
• Spanish: raquitismo (es) m
• Swedish: rakit (sv) c, rakitis (sv) c, engelska sjukan (sv) c
• Tagalog: rakitis
• Tamil: என்புருக்கி நோய் (eṉpurukki nōy)
• Thai: โรคกระดูกอ่อน (rôok-grà-dùuk-ɔ̀ɔn), โรคกระดูกอ่อนในเด็ก (rôok-grà-dùuk-ɔ̀ɔn-nai-dèk)
• Turkish: raşitizm (tr)
• Volapük: ragit
• Yiddish: ענגלישע קרענק f (englishe krenk), ראַכיט m (rakhit)

See also

• osteomalacia
• rachitic

Etymology 2

Verb

rickets

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ricket

Anagrams

• restick, sticker, tickers