rachitic

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Using tables to explain the required levels of these key nutrients, the publication offers illustrations of various problems such as rachitic rosaries and abnormal bone formation caused when producers do not provide adequate levels of calcium, phosphorous, and vitamin D3.

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  1. In anatomy, of or pertaining to the spinal column; spinal; vertebral. [Rare.]
  2. Pertaining to or affected with rachitis; rickety.
  3. Of or pertaining to a mountain ridge or range. Some details are given respecting the vegetation of the coast, which south of San Quintin suddenly becomes rachitic. Geog. Jour. (R. G. S.), XIII. 663.

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  • Using tables to explain the required levels of these key nutrients, the publication offers illustrations of various problems such as rachitic rosaries and abnormal bone formation caused when producers do not provide adequate levels of calcium, phosphorous, and vitamin D3. —  ThePigSite - Industry News
  • To that end, he employs a structure of beats that progress seamlessly from the most solid bass foundations to the most rachitic webs of snares. —  RA News
  • He was a weedy, unhealthy-looking man, weakly of frame, rachitic, undersized, with spindle-shanks, and a countenance that was almost grotesque, with its protruding jaw, gaping mouth, great, doglike eyes, and yellow tuft of beard. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
  • Since the affected subjects suffer involvement of several of the extremities at the same time, the theory of rachitic origin seems well supported Fractures Fractures of bones constitute serious conditions and are always manifested by lameness. —  Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • 17--Phalangeal exostoses Symptomatology.--In all forms of incipient ringbone except rachitic, the first manifestation of its existence, or of injury to the ligaments in the region of the pastern joint which causes periostitis, or affections of the articular portions of the proximal inter-phalangeal joint, is lameness. —  Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
 

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