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Meaning of "antirachitic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTIRACHITIC

antirachitic  [ˌæntɪrəˈkɪtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTIRACHITIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antirachitic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ANTIRACHITIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rickets

Rickets is defective mineralization of bones before epiphyseal closure in immature mammals due to deficiency or impaired metabolism of vitamin D, phosphorus or calcium, potentially leading to fractures and deformity. Rickets is among the most frequent childhood diseases in many developing countries. The predominant cause is a vitamin D deficiency, but lack of adequate calcium in the diet may also lead to rickets. Although it can occur in adults, the majority of cases occur in children suffering from severe malnutrition, usually resulting from famine or starvation during the early stages of childhood. Osteomalacia is a similar condition occurring in adults, generally due to a deficiency of vitamin D but occurs after epiphyseal closure.

Definition of antirachitic in the English dictionary

The definition of antirachitic in the dictionary is preventing or curing rickets. Other definition of antirachitic is an antirachitic remedy or agent.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTIRACHITIC


analytic
ˌænəˈlɪtɪk
antiparasitic
ˌæntɪˌpærəˈsɪtɪk
bronchitic
brɒŋˈkɪtɪk
catalytic
ˌkætəˈlɪtɪk
critic
ˈkrɪtɪk
dendritic
dɛnˈdrɪtɪk
electrolytic
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈlɪtɪk
glycolytic
ˌɡlaɪkəʊˈlɪtɪk
hydrolytic
ˌhaɪdrəˈlɪtɪk
myelocytic
ˌmaɪələʊˈsɪtɪk
orchitic
ɔːˈkɪtɪk
parasitic
ˌpærəˈsɪtɪk
politic
ˈpɒlɪtɪk
proteolytic
ˌprəʊtɪəˈlɪtɪk
rachitic
ræˈkɪtɪk
ricky-tick
ˈrɪkɪtɪk
Semitic
sɪˈmɪtɪk
thrombolytic
ˌθrɒmbəˈlɪtɪk
trachytic
trəˈkɪtɪk
trichitic
trɪˈkɪtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTIRACHITIC

antirabies
antiracism
antiracist
antiradar
antiradical
antiradicalism
antirape
antirational
antirationalism
antirationalist
antirationality
antirealism
antirealist
antirecession
antired
antireflection
antireflective
antireform
antiregulatory
antirejection

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTIRACHITIC

anorthitic
anti-Semitic
arthritic
Cushitic
dolomitic
endophitic
erethitic
ferritic
film critic
graphitic
hermaphroditic
martensitic
mephitic
ophitic
pearlitic
perthitic
pruritic
psephitic
sulphitic
Sybaritic

Synonyms and antonyms of antirachitic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «antirachitic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTIRACHITIC

Find out the translation of antirachitic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of antirachitic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antirachitic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

antirachitic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antirachitic
570 millions of speakers

English

antirachitic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

antirachitic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مضاد الرخد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

antirachitic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

antirachitic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

antirachitic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

antirachitique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antirachitic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

antirachitischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

抗くる病
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

antirachitic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antirachitic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

antirachitic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முறை ஆண்டிராகிடிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एंटीरायटिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

antiraşitik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antirachitica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antirachitic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

antirachitic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antirachitic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιραχητική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antirachitic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antirachitic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antirachitic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antirachitic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTIRACHITIC»

The term «antirachitic» is used very little and occupies the 176.087 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTIRACHITIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «antirachitic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «antirachitic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antirachitic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTIRACHITIC»

Discover the use of antirachitic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antirachitic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
THE ANTIRACHITIC FACTOR: VITAMIN D During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, cod liver oil was used as a common folklore medicine for the prevention and cure of rickets. As earlv as 1827, Bretonneau treated acute rickets in a ...
Maurice Edward Shils, Moshe Shike, 2006
2
Metabolic Bone Disease and Clinically Related Disorders
They demonstrated that rats given a diet deficient in phosphorus and the antirachitic factor developed rickets, whereas rats given diets adequate in calcium and phosphorus but deficient in the antirachitic factor developed osteoporosis but not ...
Louis V. Avioli, Stephen M. Krane, 1997
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Vitamin D
Hess and Weinstock (l925a,b,c) as well as Steenbock and Black (1925) quickly followed up on their observations that ultraviolet light could generate antirachitic activity in various foods, including rat diet. Both groups showed conclusively that  ...
Anthony Norman, 1979
4
Vitamin D and the Lung: Mechanisms and Disease Associations
Any consideration regarding the absence of a specific antirachitic substance or deficiency of either fatsoluble A and calcium as the primary agent in the production of rickets would be ill considered and might be far from the truth. At present it is ...
Augusto A. Litonjua, 2012
5
History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Japan, and in Japanese ...
The influence of ultraviolet irradiation on the antirachitic value of soybean oil. J. ofBiochemistry (Tokyo) 10(1):177-82. Oct. [10 ref. Eng] • Summary: “The purpose of the present investigation was to determine the value of soybean oil for its ...
William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, 2014
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History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in China and Taiwan, and in ...
Eng] • Summary: “The purpose of the present investigation was to determine the value of soybean oil for its antirachitic property and to ascertain whether its antirachitic value could be increased by means of irradiation with the ultraviolet light, ...
William Shurtleff, H.T. Huang, Akiko Aoyagi, 2014
7
Physiology of Farm Animals
Vitamin D. The natural sources of the antirachitic vitamin D are cod liver oil and animal fats and irradiated yeast and other substances of vegetable origin. Vitamin D, being fat soluble, is commonly found associated with vitamin A and as a ...
8
Quality of alfalfa hay in relation to curing practice
Steenbock, Hart, Elvehjem, and Kletzien (11, p. 439) conclude that — The antirachitic properties of hays are related to their exposure to sunlight. * * * Clover hay excessively weathered was reduced in antirachitic action as compared with hay ...
Theodore Alexander Kiesselbach, Arthur Anderson, 1931
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Technical Bulletin
Steenbock, Hart, Elvehjem, and Kletzien (11, p. 439) conclude that — The antirachitic properties of hays are related to their exposure to sunlight. * * * Clover hay excessively weathered was reduced in antirachitic action as compared with hay ...
10
Vitamins: Their Role in the Human Body
Two years later, Powers showed that codliver oil and UV radiation had similar curative effects on rachitic rats, thus establishing the dual source for antirachitic activity - diet and UV radiation. In 1922 McCollum and associates published the ...
George F. M. Ball, 2008

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTIRACHITIC»

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The '818 patent, which is directed to an antirachitic product and process (i.e., a process for enhancing Vitamin D in "organic substances of ... «Patent Docs, Sep 09»

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