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
Every trip on the rachitic Long Island Rail Road, every decision in the office or at home tied him up in knots.
From Time Magazine Archive
Manhattan's sensitive transportation, from scabby subways to rachitic taxicabs, were strained to the limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before she was three years old, a series of infantile diseases had left Gwen so rachitic and knock-kneed that she could barely walk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baldwin reports a case of Cesarean section on a typical rachitic dwarf of twenty-four, who weighed 100 pounds and was only 47 1/2 inches tall.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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