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

The passengers were part of a scarred, frustrated and endlessly complaining tribe �the 300,000 New York commuters who daily ride the rachitic, mismanaged Long Island Rail Road.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an industry that lost $200 million on passenger service in 1968, horror stories of unconscionable service and rachitic equipment are a valuable asset.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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)