His ribs exhibited a pattern known as rachitic rosary, indicative of malnutrition. Researchers concluded that while he was ...

Known as a rachitic rosary, those malformations occur when knobs of rib bone begin to resemble rosary beads due to a vitamin D deficiency.

IN previous papers1,2 we communicated the results of some experiments on phosphorus metabolism in normal, rachitic, and rachitic rats treated with vitamin D, by which the distribution, absorption ...