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cretinism
[ kreet-n-iz-uhmor, especially British, kret- ]
noun
- (no longer in technical use) a congenital disease due to absence or deficiency of normal thyroid secretion, characterized by physical deformity, dwarfism, and intellectual disability, and often by goiter: This condition is now diagnosed as congenital hypothyroidism or congenital iodine deficiency.
cretinism
/ ˈ°ì°ùÉ›³Ùɪˌ²Ôɪ³úÉ™³¾ /
noun
- old-fashioned.a condition arising from a deficiency of thyroid hormone, present from birth, characterized by dwarfism and mental retardation See also myxoedema
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cretinism1
Example Sentences
The late Gore Vidal explained that one of his ambitions as a historian and novelist was to determine “when the great cretinism began in the United States…when people got really dumb.â€
No doubt it was pretty funny, this new level of cretinism reached by this known moron whose unearned privileges allowed him to fail upwards right into the White House.
The “superstructure†has triumphed over the “baseâ€, “parliamentary cretinism†over the “dictatorship of the proletariatâ€.
In 1997, according to Unicef, almost a fifth of its population had goiters — swollen thyroid glands in the neck that indicate serious deficiency, which can also cause dwarfism and cretinism.
Iodized salt has also minimized risks related to pregnancy, such as stillbirth and spontaneous abortion, and cognitive defects in a child’s early developmental years, such as cretinism.
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