rachitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of the vertebral column

   Broaderinflammation
2. 2.

   childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus

   Synonymsrickets

   Broaderavitaminosis

Other forms of rachitis

plural

rachitises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rachitis

What does rachitis mean?

rachitis means "inflammation of the vertebral column". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rachitis?

rachitis has 3 syllables: ra-chi-tis. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for rachitis?

Close synonyms include rickets. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rachitis a common word?

rachitis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.