How to Use rickets in a Sentence

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• But rickets affects infants and very young children—far younger than those enrolled in Vit-D-Kids.
  — Charles Piller, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2021
• Historically, a lack of vitamin D in the diet was, and in some places in the world remains, the most common cause of rickets.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Vitamin D, from sunshine or food, contributes to bone strength; in its absence bones remain soft in the condition called rickets.
  — John J. Ross, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2020
• Researchers found no signs of rickets, scurvy or anemia—diseases caused by nutrient deficiencies that can warp the skeleton.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2020
• Possibly for this reason, skeletal signs of diseases like scurvy and rickets were rare in people from early medieval Oxford, both before and after 1066.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 July 2020
• Gibson’s early years were filled with medical troubles — rickets, pneumonia, asthma, hay fever and a heart problem.
  — Rick Hummel, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• The poverty was visceral in a neighborhood teeming with bow-legged children suffering from rickets, and shoeless beggars wearing clothes made from rags.
  — Diane Cole, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2020
• Scientists also found that infections, trauma, scurvy or rickets had triggered periostitis—chronic swelling and pain—to form in Waal’s arm bones.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2021
• Peggy’s father, physician Alfred Hess, researched the nutritional value of fresh food and is credited in a Nobel Prize for his contributions to work to prevent scurvy and rickets.
  — oregonlive, 19 May 2022
• Malnutrition sometimes reaches right down to the bone: in children who don’t get enough vitamin D over a long period of time, growing bones are weak and bend into abnormal shapes, a condition called rickets.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 July 2020
• The athlete overcame several health struggles in his childhood before embarking on his career in sports, including asthma, rickets and a heart murmur, according to the MLB.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• The main outcome of D3 deficiency in children is skeletal deformities called rickets.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 15 Sep. 2022
• For example, it has been known to medical science since 1920 that rickets, a debilitating skeletal disease, can be cured by vitamin D.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 2 Sep. 2020
• In fact, children with low levels of vitamin D are at higher risk of developing a condition called rickets, which leads to bone weakness and other skeletal deformities.
  — Valerie Agyeman, Good Housekeeping, 1 Sep. 2022
• In addition, the product did not have vitamin D, and a vitamin D deficiency can potentially lead to rickets, a softening and weakening of bones.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 Jan. 2022
• This was rickets, a deficiency of one or more of the basic vitamins or minerals that make bones strong — usually vitamin D and calcium, or less frequently, phosphate.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Physicians and historians of medicine have long bickered over a differential diagnosis of Tiny Tim’s unspecified illness, with guesses ranging from cerebral palsy to rickets to renal tubal acidosis.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 20 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024