Crossword-Solution: GOITRE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Goitre | n. | An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GOITRE | anagram | GOITER, ORTEIG |
We have 9 clues for the answer “GOITRE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| British ailment | 1 answer |
| DERBYSHIRE neck | 1 answer |
| Endemic ailment. | 1 answer |
| Londoner's thyroid problem | 1 answer |
| Thyroid problem, to Dr. Watson | 1 answer |
| Thyroid swelling | 2 answers |
| struma | 2 answers |
| nutritional deficiency disease | 8 answers |
| swelling | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GOITRE (5)
Here and there we passed Cszeks and Slovaks, all in picturesque attire, but I noticed that goitre was painfully prevalent.
You look in de front-room winduh wheres she sweepin'; you kin see it on her.” Penrod looked in the window and was rewarded by a fine view of Queenie's goitre.
She had a _goitre_ so enormous that it was scarcely possible to avoid gazing at her for a moment; but my two companions almost instantly, by way of apology, made the common salute of the country by taking off their hats.
The thyroid body, situated in the neck and the enlargement of which is called goitre, secretes substances which pass into the blood, and which are necessary for the growth of the body in childhood, for the development of the mind and for the nutrition of the tissues of the skin.
Lacy, with his 20,000,--who lay, while Friedrich's attack was expected from south, at Loswig, as advanced guard, east side of the GROSSE TEICH (supreme pond of all, which is a continuation of the Duck-trap, ENTEFANG, and hangs like a chief goitre on the goitry neck of Torgau),--Lacy is now to draw himself north and westward, and looking into the Entefang over his left shoulder (so to speak), be rear-guard against any Ziethen or Prussian party that may come.
Quotes with GOITRE (1)
Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the basketball of a goitre perched on her shoulder. She told you, your father walked onto the veranda and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn’t flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1956–2003).