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Cretinism

noun
1.
Severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting.





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"Cretinism" Quotes from Famous Books



... But here belongs further the effect of poisons which the body itself produces: the toxic disturbance of uraemia or the coma in diabetes, or especially the grave disturbances resulting from the abnormal action of the thyroid gland, the source of cretinism. Many indications suggest that a near future will consider this group much larger than we are really justified in doing today, probably soon connecting a number of other mental diseases like dementia praecox with toxic effects of bodily origin. ...
— Psychotherapy • Hugo Muensterberg


Words linked to "Cretinism" :   hypothyroidism, cretinous


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