Crossword-Solution: CRETINISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cretinism | n. | A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps. |
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| nutritional deficiency disease | 8 answers |
| Idiocy | 55 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CRETINISM (5)
Cretinism is an endemic disease among mountainous people who drink largely of lime water, and is characterized by a condition of physical, physiologic, and mental degeneracy and nondevelopment, and possibly goiter.
Sporadic cretinism, or congenital myzedema, is characterized by a congenital absence of the thyroid, diminutiveness of size, thickness of neck, shortness of arms and legs, prominence of the abdomen, large size of the face, thickness of the lips, large and protruding tongue, and imbecility or idiocy.
Figure 285 shows a case of myxedema, one of myxedema in a case of arrested development--a transition case between myxedema of the adult and sporadic cretinism--and a typical case of sporadic cretinism.
There are games, and books, and company, and dinners, and other things.” “Certainly, and you can think yourself happy, until gradually a contented cretinism steals over you, body and mind.” “No, no!” said Ethel enthusiastically.
The particular form of idiocy known as cretinism is the result of this deficiency, which produces an arrest of the development of the brain cells.