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goitrous

/goi-truhs/US // ˈgɔɪ trəs //

齿形的,齿形,齿科,齿龈炎

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Pathology.

    • : pertaining to or affected with goiter.

Examples

  • He was profoundly ill-proportioned, very goitrous, and ravages of small-pox had bequeathed to him a wonderful facial ugliness.

  • In the same quarter of the town, where this local industry is carried on, are many goitrous persons.

  • The abandoned valleys of Savoy and Piedmont are goitrous, smitten, sterile.

  • If the water supply of a goitrous valley be changed to a healthy spring, goitre and cretinism disappear.

  • We had been previously informed that the whole town was goitrous.