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 ...

IT has long been known that vitamin D exerts a profound influence upon the calcification of developing teeth. The action of this vitamin in massive doses upon the persistently growing incisor of ...

Skeletal deformities including Bow legs, Forward projection of the breastbone (pigeon chest or pectus carinatum), Funnel chest (pectus excavatum), "Bumps" in the rib cage (rachitic rosary) and ...