Meanings (ES + gloss)
raquítico
Of or pertaining to, or affected by, rickets (“a disorder of infancy and early childhood due to a deficiency of vitamin D, causing soft or weak bones”).
His companions—now I could see them as well. […] Tiny, nocturnal, twittering, they were like rachitic children, and as one went past me I saw mongoloid features and a bald head.
Nor was there time to do much more than distribute some sweet to the pallid rachitic children.
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