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Myxedema   Listen
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myxedema  n.  (Also spelled myxoedema)  (Med.) A pathological condition due to severe hyperthyroidism, marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental and physical deterioration.






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"Myxedema" Quotes from Famous Books



... exophthalmic goiter, and goiter is concerned with the enlargement of the glands and surrounding tissues beyond anything like natural size. Then, too, a defect in the glands causes the disease known as myxedema in adults and cretinism in children. Most of all, the gland seems to tell on the germ plasm of ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve



Words linked to "Myxedema" :   hypothyroidism



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