Ra-chī'tis, n.

n. [Gr. ῥαχῖτις (sc. νόσος), from ῥάχις, the spine; Fr. rachitis.]

1. (Med.) Inflammation of the spine;—most commonly applied to a disease of early childhood, in which the bones soften, become swollen and distorted, and the body deformed; the rickets.
2. (Bot.) A disease which produces abortion in the fruit. Henslow.