Crossword-Solution: MYXOEDEMA
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Hint 1 meaning
The objective case of thou. See Thou.
Hint 2 anagram
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MYXOEDEMA.--This is a constitutional disease due to atrophy (wasting away) of the thyroid gland and characterized by swollen condition of the tissue under the skin, wasting of the thyroid and mental failures.
Apart from these two diseases they are very rarely found; Mendel saw them for example in a case of myxoedema, Türk quite exceptionally in some infectious diseases.
The pathology of cretinism and its allied condition myxoedema (q.v.) has now been conclusively worked out, and its essential cause has been shown to be loss of function of the thyroid gland.
But in that year Dr George Murray published his discovery of the effect of hypodermic injections of thyroid gland extract in cases of myxoedema.
Endemic Goitre or Thyreocele: Its Etiology, Clinical Characters, Pathology, Distribution, Relations to Cretinism, Myxoedema, &c., and Treatment.