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What is Rickets?

January 23, 2010

Here's an interesting article I found about Rickets..

Rickets is a disorder that affects children, causing poor development of the bones in the skeleton. It is usually caused by an extreme and prolonged vitamin D deficiency.

The term rickets comes from the Old English word “wrickken”, meaning to twist or bend. Rickets was common during Victorian times, but nowadays the condition is rare. Rickets in adults is known as osteomalacia or soft bones.  The rest of the article can be found here.

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