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goitrous
[ goi-truhs ]
adjective
- pertaining to or affected with goiter.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
For Anna, her awakening comes when she begins learning Greek from a goitrous tutor in Constantinople.
On a bench sits a goitrous and sallow German sergeant major with shadows carved under his eyes.
Undoubtedly, goitre often occurs in children of healthy parents brought from another locality into one where the disease is common; and, per contra, goitrous subjects not infrequently recover from the affection when removed for a length of time from the place where it was developed in them.
Outside of the throat we must remember the significance of glandular swellings or scars of suppurated glands in children; nor overlook, if present, stiffness of the muscles, or torticollis, or goitrous enlargement of the thyroid gland.
Goitre is sometimes cured by removal of the individual from the district where it prevails, and it is apt to be acquired by previously healthy persons who settle in goitrous localities; and it is only in such places that the disease exhibits hereditary tendencies.
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