rachitic


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Related to rachitic: rachitis, rickets, rachitic pelvis
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affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets

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Eighteen non-adults with rickets have stable isotope data, which, while a rather modest sample, is larger than many other archaeological rachitic samples, and there are 38 to 44 unaffected non-adults with stable isotope data for comparison.
He had an additional hip radiograph at 5 months of age that demonstrated worsening rachitic changes in the ileum and proximal metaphyses of the bilateral femurs.
1,25dihydroxyvitamin D, rapidly alters the morphology of the duodenal mucosa of rachitic chicks: evidence for novel effects of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D.
These gleaming, earth-burnished, flashing Blades, thousands, along the Delta, bent-backed toilers, Soil-struck, lifting them, up and down, forward, Row by row, like the long, rachitic hafts of oil Rigs, pumping, wheezing in phthistic toil, Lunging, plunging, heat-breathing lungs, striking And lifting, the striking and lifting blades In their apogee, caught in the Egyptian sun, A field of blinking, blazing stars, like a timbal, Tinkling in the eye, muscle and stroke, this legion, Lifting, breaking the fleshy loam, a thousand times a day, A million times of years, these dark Pharaonic fields.
A multitude of handicaps Fatin, Sifyan and Syeon all suffer from rachitic and glaucoma.
The mediolateral view of radius-ulna showed rachitic lesions in distal metaphysis of radius and ulna (Fig.
His weight gradually decreased and rachitic changes, including genu valgum, became evident.
A rachitic infant painted by Burgkmair 136 year before Dr.
Rachitic rosary was the most frequent clinical feature observed in 87% followed by widening of wrist joints in 76% cases.
Response of rachitic rat bones to 1, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3: biphasic effects on mineralization and lack of effect on bone resorption.
In this disease patients will develop symptoms related to growth retardation (unproportional growth stature) and rachitic skeletal deformities mainly in upper and lower limbs [Farach-Carson and Nemere, 2003].
One can observe this abnormality frequently in childhood, when the child's congenital and rachitic nature persists.
Is there a "rachitic rosary" of the ribs, pectus carinatum deformity, or Harrison's groove?
Studies conducted in the Hyp mouse model, the murine homologue of XLH, in which bone from affected Hyp mice was transplanted into normal wild type mice, have found evidence that an intrinsic defect in osteoblast and osteocyte function, which results in increased FGF23 production by osteocytes, is responsible for the persistence of osteomalacia despite correction of the hypophosphataemia and almost complete rescue of the rachitic lesions (6).
* Epiphyses widened and flared with irregular, "cupped" epiphyseal-metaphyseal junctions; involvement of the costrochondral junctions produces a row of beadlike prominences often called the "rachitic rosary"