Meanings of cretinism in English

Where is the shady side of deep vallies, there is cretinism.

The symptoms are the reverse of cretinism and myxedema.

Endemic cretinism is the name given to the condition.

C. was four years old when she entered, with every symptom of confirmed rachitic cretinism.

Three forms exist, myxoedema proper, cretinism and operative myxoedcma.

So cretinism was in a fair way to spread all over the valley from this spot.

There is no need of suffering, even in a mild degree, from the disease of cretinism.

The Swiss have similar feelings as to those of their families whom cretinism has reduced to idiocy.

After the recovery occasional small doses still may be necessary for some, or in cretinism for life.

Symptoms.-Arethe same as that of cretinism.

There is a congenital disease called cretinism which essentially is due to a lack of thyroid secretion.

The clinical variables of the survey were goitre and cretinism, and the biochemical variable was urinary iodine.

Sporadic (here and there) cretinism may follow an acute infectious disease or it may be congenital.

Macaulay's moral pedantry, Thiers's cold and repulsive cretinism, the melodramatic, gesticulatory effusiveness of Michelet are all typical styles.

Then, too, a defect in the glands causes the disease known as myxedema in adults and cretinism in children.

And nothing was gained from this exercise in vanity except for giving the cretinism of creationism a big stage.