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cretinism

[ kreet-n-iz-uhmor, especially British, kret- ]

noun

Pathology.
  1. (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

  1. old-fashioned.
    a condition arising from a deficiency of thyroid hormone, present from birth, characterized by dwarfism and mental retardation See also myxoedema
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cretinism1

First recorded in 1795–1800; from French ³¦°ùé³Ù¾±²Ô¾±²õ³¾±ð; cretin, -ism
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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€

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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.

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The “superstructure†has triumphed over the “baseâ€, “parliamentary cretinism†over the “dictatorship of the proletariatâ€.

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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.

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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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