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

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

But these rachitic sinews manfully bore the baggage of war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Various types are met with; they are known according to their cause, as static, congenital, traumatic, paralytic, rachitic, rheumatic, arthritic, gonorrhœal, and tabetic.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander