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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A deficiency of vitamin D results in rickets .
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Diseases from our history texts, like rickets and scurvy, have begun to reappear in the West.
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She was well under five feet in height and her legs were terribly bowed because of rickets .
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Spouses or newly-weds should carry a copy of their marriage certificate where passports and rickets are in different names.
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The diseases of the time affected almost every family: tuberculosis, rickets , pneumonia.
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These robust bones of healed rickets provide an explanation for Lees and co-workers' findings.
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Tuberculosis and malnutrition were prevalent, as was rickets .