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

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

Most important, if the daring financial gamble is won, it may encourage other European nations with overvalued, rachitic currencies, notably France and Greece, to push through their own tough financial programs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their March� aux Puces has grown into a cluster of six slightly separated markets, a jumble of tumble-down booths and rachitic sheds threaded by wandering, roofed passageways and covering an area of 150 acres.

From Time Magazine Archive

He calls attention to the fact that the scrofulous and rachitic diatheses in childhood are sometimes accompanied by this disorder.

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