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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

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n.名词 noun
  1. 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.

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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.