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    Rickets, scientific nomenclature: rachitis (from Greek ῥαχίτης rhakhítēs, meaning 'in or of the spine'), is a condition that results in weak or soft bones...
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    is an X-linked dominant form of rickets (or osteomalacia) that differs from most cases of dietary deficiency rickets in that vitamin D supplementation...
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    Vitamin D (section Rickets)
    children with rickets, the childhood form of osteomalacia. Vitamin D supplements are commonly used to treat or to prevent osteomalacia and rickets. The evidence...
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    Genu varum (section Rickets)
    bones (fibula and tibia) is involved. If a child is sickly, either with rickets or any other ailment that prevents ossification of the bones or is improperly...
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    impairs bone mineralization, leading to bone-softening diseases, such as rickets in children. It can also worsen osteomalacia and osteoporosis in adults...
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    Genu valgum (section Rickets)
    worsen with age, particularly when it is the result of a disease, such as rickets. Idiopathic genu valgum is a form that is either congenital or has no known...
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  • Michael Rickets President of the Jamaican Football Federation Incumbent Assumed office 2017 Preceded by Horace Burrell South Central Confederation Personal...
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    Pete Ricketts (redirect from Pete Rickets)
    John Peter Ricketts (born August 19, 1964) is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Nebraska since 2023...
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  • 1097/00005792-194305000-00002. Lucas RC (1833). "Form of late rickets associated with albuminuria, rickets of adolescents". The Lancet. 1 (3119): 993–994. doi:10...
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    USS Biddle/Claude V. Ricketts (DD-995/DDG-5), was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She was the third US Naval...
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