rickets

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word rickets. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word rickets, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say rickets in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word rickets you have here. The definition of the word rickets will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofrickets, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

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

Noun

rickets (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) A disorder of infancy and early childhood caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft bones.
Synonyms
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Verb

rickets

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ricket

Anagrams

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia