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

In Peacock Station, Va., Farmer Paul Rhinehart, 76, stood before a rachitic barn and pointed to Marian and Irma Zielezinski, who were feeding a yardful of clamorous chickens.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manhattan's sensitive transportation, from scabby subways to rachitic taxicabs, were strained to the limit.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He considers ringbone as articular, periarticular, rachitic and traumatic.

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