rachitic
Example Sentences
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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
Short in stature, rachitic in boyhood, Adler was fascinated from youth on by the power of the human will as an antidote to physical defects.
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
Manhattan's sensitive transportation, from scabby subways to rachitic taxicabs, were strained to the limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Skutsch reports a case in which it was twice performed on a woman with a rachitic pelvis, and who the second time was pregnant with twins; the children and mother recovered.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
