| 单词 | rosary of rickets |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrosary of rickets d. Medicine. More fully rachitic rosary, rosary of rickets. The enlarged costochondral junctions of the ribs characteristic of rickets, which look and feel like a line of beads.Cf. rickety rosary n. at rickety adj. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > rickets English disease1609 rickets1634 rachitis1668 ricketiness1673 English sickness1707 innutrition of the bones1796 rosary1872 rickety rosary1873 1872 J. L. Smith Treat. Dis. Infancy & Childhood (ed. 2) 92 Enlargement of the costo-chondral articulations, known as the ‘rachitic rosary’,..is one of the earliest and most reliable signs of rachitis. 1877 F. C. Shattuck & G. K. Sabine tr. J. Orth Compend Diagnosis Pathol. Anat. 105 The portions of the ribs which contain the centres of ossification, are decidedly enlarged and swollen in rickety children, and these swellings, taken all together, form what has been termed the rosary of rickets. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 115 The enlargement of the ends of the ribs at the junction with the costal cartilages—the ‘beads’ which collectively form what is called the ‘rosary’—is the earliest of all the bone changes. 1917 C. H. Dunn Pediatrics II. 638 The characteristic rosary of rickets is not seen in chondrodystrophy. 1996 J. Glowacki in C. J. Rosen Osteoporosis i. 13 Cartilaginous ends of the ribs can become protuberant (called the rosary of rickets). < as lemmas |
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