cretinism
/kreet-n-iz-uhm or, especially British, kret-/US // ˈkrit nˌɪz əm or, especially British, ˈkrɛt- //UK // (ˈkrɛtɪˌnɪzəm) //
痴呆症,矮人症,矮胖症,矮子病
Related Words
madness乱象,疯狂,混乱lunacy疯子,痴呆症,癫痫,疯癫insanity精神错乱,疯癫,精神错乱症,精神病fatuity脂肪性,肥胖症,肥沃性,脂肪含量imbecility低能儿,低能,低能症,低能级foolishness愚蠢的行为,愚蠢行为,愚昧,愚蠢derangement错乱,紊乱,错觉,错位inanity虚无缥缈,荒唐,荒诞不经,荒诞tomfoolery愚人节,愚弄,愚弄人,愚蠢的行为senselessness无感,无感觉,无知无觉,无知觉insipidity淡化,淡薄,淡化现象,淡泊fatuousness脂粉气,虚荣心,浮夸风,浮夸asininity卑鄙无耻,卑鄙的人,卑鄙无耻之徒,卑鄙无耻的人
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Pathology.
- : 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.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inidiocy
Synonyms
insanity精神错乱,疯癫,精神错乱症,精神病lunacy疯子,痴呆症,癫痫,疯癫madness乱象,疯狂,混乱asininity卑鄙无耻,卑鄙的人,卑鄙无耻之徒,卑鄙无耻的人derangement错乱,紊乱,错觉,错位fatuity脂肪性,肥胖症,肥沃性,脂肪含量fatuousness脂粉气,虚荣心,浮夸风,浮夸foolishness愚蠢的行为,愚蠢行为,愚昧,愚蠢imbecility低能儿,低能,低能症,低能级inanity虚无缥缈,荒唐,荒诞不经,荒诞insipidity淡化,淡薄,淡化现象,淡泊senselessness无感,无感觉,无知无觉,无知觉tomfoolery愚人节,愚弄,愚弄人,愚蠢的行为
Examples
Certainly, and you can think yourself happy, until gradually a contented cretinism steals over you, body and mind.
Such children, in their mental hebetude and physical degeneracy, suggest a degree of cretinism.
The Swiss have similar feelings as to those of their families whom cretinism has reduced to idiocy.
Not being aware of this act of cretinism, she went at him on the marriage business with a hopeful spirit.
The peculiar disease called cretinism, as well as goitre, has been attributed to a predominance of certain chemicals in the soil.
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