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Myxoedema   Listen
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Myxoedema  n.  (Also spelled myxedema)  (Med.) A disease producing a peculiar cretinoid appearance of the face, slow speech, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland.






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... this allegation in the case of the thyreoid. We do not now need to be told that the thyreoid gland plays a very important part in the economy, for we know that its surgical removal gives rise to a special disease known as myxoedema, which, in addition to its physical manifestations, is characterized by impairment of the mental powers. Consequently, this ductless gland—a gland, that is to say, which has no obvious canal by which it throws off any product of its activity—must elaborate some ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord



Words linked to "Myxoedema" :   hypothyroidism, myxedema



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