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

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

There is much easy fun with linen dusters, carbide headlights, rachitic engines and foozling radiators.

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