rickets - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • prevent: This is because Vitamin D, a vitamin which prevents rickets, is partly made in skin.
  • cause: A deficiency of Vitamin D leads to a failure of the bones to grow and causes rickets in children and osteoporosis in adults.
  • develop: They tend to overprotect their children, with much greater danger to their personal and emotional development than the risk of developing rickets.
  • have: Also, the hundreds of children in our community never had rickets either.
  • get: Vitamin D Babies who do not get enough vitamin D may get rickets, a disease that affects bone development.
  • call: The disease caused by a low calcium diet is called rickets.

Noun used with modifier

  • childhood: Females who suffered from a distorted pelvis as a result of childhood rickets often experienced very difficult and sometimes fatal births.

Preposition: in

  • child: A vitamin D deficiency can lead to osteoporosis in adults or rickets in children.

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