rachitic

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A sequence of rachitic little drawings by Tracey Emin – whose monoprints are so ubiquitous as to have become museum wallpaper – cannot compete with those of her heroine, Louise Bourgeois.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2012

The man who brought the Royal Canadian Navy up from rachitic infancy to lusty manhood headed this week across the Atlantic.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only power a President had in that emergency was to ring a gong, then wait while workmen hurried to the basement and jiggled the rachitic machinery back into motion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was small, rachitic, poor and struggling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the affected subjects suffer involvement of several of the extremities at the same time, the theory of rachitic origin seems well supported.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor