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Definition of Rickety

1. Adjective. Inclined to shake as from weakness or defect. "The bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky"

2. Adjective. Affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets. "A rachitic patient"

3. Adjective. Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality. "Her body looked sapless"

Definition of Rickety

1. a. Affected with rickets.

Definition of Rickety

1. Adjective. Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure; giddy; shaky. ¹

2. Adjective. Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering. ¹

3. Adjective. Affected with or suffering from rickets. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rickety

1. likely to fall or collapse [adj -ETIER, -ETIEST]

Medical Definition of Rickety

1. To do with rickets, a disease caused by Vitamin D deficiency. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rickety

rickettsial rickettsial disease rickettsial diseases rickettsial vaccines rickettsiales rickettsiales infections rickettsialpox rickettsias rickettsieae rickettsiological

rickettsiology rickettsioses rickettsiosis rickettsiostatic ricketty rickety (current term) rickey rickeys ricking rickle

rickle o' banes rickle o' bones rickle of banes rickle of bones rickles rickly rickrack rickracks rickroll rickrolled

Literary usage of Rickety

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by Henry Ashby, George Arthur Wright (1889)
"The kyphotic rickety spine is readily distinguished from other spinal curvatures by ... Finally there is no pain, except in some cases the general rickety ..."

2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
"THE skeleton of a rickety female dwarf, lately placed in the Anatomical Museum of the ... The rickety flexures are such as are commonly observed when the ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1850)
"3. That Professor Retzius has found no arterial network in the sheaths from the Capsule of Glisson. ART. VII.— Upon the Structure of rickety Bones. ..."

4. On the Wasting Diseases of Infants and Children by Eustace Smith (1884)
"He explains the source of the error by the fact, that rickety children separated in consequence of their physical defects from other children, ..."

5. Popular romances of the west of England; or, The drolls, traditions, and by Robert Hunt (1881)
"rickety CHILDREN. THE practice of bathing rickety children on the first three Wednesdays in May is still far from uncommon in the ..."

6. Auscultation and Percussion: Together with the Other Methods of Physical by Samuel Jones Gee (1893)
"When the diaphragm descends and rarefies the air contained in the lungs, the rickety ribs, not being able to hold out until ..."

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