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cre·tin
/ ˈkrētn/
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n.
a stupid person (used as a general term of abuse).
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dated Med.
a person who is deformed and mentally handicapped because of congenital thyroid deficiency.
DERIVATIVES:
cre·tin·ism
/ -ˌizəm/ n.
cre·tin·ous
/ -əs/ adj.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hibernation and cretinism
Newspaper article from: ; 11/28/2007; ; 284 words
; ...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hibernation and cretinism Byline: International Herald Tribune...that. Has Robb ever heard of "Alpine cretinism," a condition that made people lose...their cognitive development? Alpine cretinism, as the name implies, was endemic in...
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Constitutional cretinism.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/18/2002; 700+ words
; Byline: Adrian E. Cristobal Civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the military. The Armed Forces of the Philippines is the protector of the people and the State. Its goal is to secure the sovereignty of the State and the integrity of the national territory. - Art II, Sec. 3, The
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I think I have a kind of moral cretinism.
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 9/5/2004; ; 700+ words
; It's less glamorous than being a sociopath, but there's a part of my mind that just doesn't work properly. I'm not a person to go around feeling sorry about what I've done. It's not in me. I can't do it; Julie Burchill, Britain's most venomous journalist, has written a novel for teenagers about a
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La batalla de Nancy Carrasco contra el cretinismo. (investigadora mexicana que estudia las posibilidades de curar enfermedades como el cáncer de tiroides mediante el uso de yodo)(TT: Nancy Carrasco's battle against cretinism) (TA: Mexican researcher who studies the possibility of curing diseases such as thyroid cancer through the use of iodine)
Magazine article from: Contenido; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; En 1991 una joven y desconocida investigadora mexicana llam la atencin de la comunidad cientfica internacional con sus descubrimientos sobre el metabolismo del yodo, indispensable para el desarrollo del sistema nervioso humano. El trabajo, dado a conocer en Canad, vali a Nancy Carrasco Queijeiro
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Iodine and neuropsychological development
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nutrition; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...relationship is the condition of endemic cretinism, described from the Middle Ages and...The demonstration of the prevention of cretinism in a double-blind controlled trial...the causal role of iodine deficiency in cretinism by an effect on the developing fetal...
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The iodine factor in health and evolution.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...terminology, a cretin,(1) afflicted by cretinism - the appalling condition that gave our...mental capacity, and millions suffer from cretinism. Although the physiological roots of...element typically suffer from goiter and cretinism. Goiter is an enlargement of the thyroid...
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The Neanderthal: A Modern Man With Disease?
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/24/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...suffered from chronic iodine deficiency and cretinism that caused the thick, curved bones...corresponds fairly closely to a pattern of cretinism common in the "goiter belts" of central...Neanderthals, said in an interview. "Cretinism leaves very distinctive marks on skeletons...
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Comment in reply: an interdisciplinary discourse on the role of iodine in human evolution.
Magazine article from: The Geographical Review; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...modern humans suffering from endemic cretinism. That does not necessarily mean that...Neandertals were suffering pathologically from cretinism. I took great pains to clarify that...humans suffering pathologically from cretinism. Even in the accompanying commentaries...
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Iodine should be routinely added to complementary foods1
Magazine article from: The Journal of Nutrition; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...The most severe form of brain damage is cretinism characterized by gross mental retardation...and other neuromuscular retardation. Cretinism from iodine deficiency has now become...within the affected population than is cretinism. This fact has the important public...
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From stunted child to `new woman': the significance of physical growth in late-nineteenth-century medicine and fiction.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...children stunted in their development by cretinism with the thyroid of a sheep they would...to transform sufferers from `sporadic cretinism', `stunted withered skeletons' deemed...s discovery: In cases of `sporadic cretinism'--arrested bodily and mental development...
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cretinism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cretinism , condition produced in infants and children due to lack of thyroid hormone...iodine in the diet, or if the thyroid is diseased or surgically removed. Cretinism causes very serious retardation of physical and mental development; if...
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dwarfism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...completely normal except for size, is commonly called a midget. Cretinism is a type of dwarfism accompanied by mental retardation and...resulting from an insufficiency of thyroid hormone. Unlike cretinism and pituitary dwarfism (which are thought to be caused by...
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Thyroid Disease
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
...occurrence in developed countries. When hypothyroidism occurs in infancy and is not treated cretinism (KREET-in-izm) results. A child with cretinism has stunted growth and mental deficiency. Older children who become hypothyroid show slowing...
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thyroxine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...high levels of thyroxine depress the rate of thyrotropin secretion. Synthetically prepared thyroxine is used clinically in the treatment of thyroid gland deficiency diseases in adults and in the treatment of cretinism in children.
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Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...arsenic) into use as medicines; and noted relationships such as the hereditary pattern in syphilis and the association of cretinism with endemic goiter and of paralysis with head injuries. He wrote numerous medical and occult works containing a curious...
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