[
US
/ˈɡɔɪtɝ/
]
NOUN
- abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet
How To Use goiter In A Sentence
- In his piece about Awana, he writes amusingly about taking a pee and I couldn't help but recall the moment when the great man, he of pulchritudinous prose, goitred with soliped leitmotifs, crenellation and spittle, took one next to mee. AA . . . On The Piss
- The differential diagnoses for a cystic lesion in the thyroid region include TDCs and cystic degeneration in neoplasm or goiter.
- Fatal cases or secondary illnesses have become more and more of a rarity in goitre operations. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 - Presentation Speech
- Other public health initiatives, such as iodising salt to prevent goitre or fluoridating water to prevent dental caries, have been introduced in the past in order to provide health benefits to the majority of the population.
- In addition, it may be as well to remember that death sometimes occurs suddenly in exophthalmic goitre, hypertrophy of the thymus, and in Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- The presence of goiter, coarse hair, dry skin, carotenemia, and myxedema indicates hypothyroidism.
- Other desert animals, including wild sheep, Tibetan ass, and goitered gazelle, also stand to benefit.
- There may also be swelling of the thyroid gland in the neck - a goitre.
- The peculiar disease called cretinism, as well as goitre, has been attributed to a predominance of certain chemicals in the soil. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)
- Since the 1920s, the prevalence of goitre has decreased as iodised table salt became widely used.