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

U.N. experts figured that it would need at least $450 million to care for an estimated 20 million semi-starved and rachitic waifs for a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

St. Braun gives the account of a Porro-Cesarean operation in the case of a rachitic dwarf 3 feet 10 inches tall, in which both the mother and child recovered.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)