myxedema

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• Then, too, a defect in the glands causes the disease known as myxedema in adults and cretinism in children. The War Terror
• The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
• For example, alterations in the efficiency of the cerebral link may yield neurasthenia, mania, dementia; of the thyroid link, Graves 'disease, myxedema; of the adrenal link, Addison's disease, cardiovascular disease. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
• -- In myxedema one of the cardinal symptoms is a persistently subnormal temperature and, though prone to infection, subjects of myxedema show but feeble febrile response and readily succumb. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
• The presence of goiter, coarse hair, dry skin, carotenemia, and myxedema indicates hypothyroidism.
• He holds that the observations in myxedema, in obesity, and psoriasis warrant the belief that the thyroid gland eliminates a material having a regulating influence upon the constitution of the panniculus adiposus and upon the nutrition of the skin in general. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• He holds that the observations in myxedema, in obesity, and psoriasis warrant the belief that the thyroid gland eliminates a material having a regulating influence upon the constitution of the panniculus adiposus and upon the nutrition of the skin in general. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• It has been shown experimentally in various ways that the necessary elements of the secretion can be furnished by feeding with the gland or its extracts, and that the cretinoid or myxedematous conditions could thus be cured or prevented. The Evolution of Modern Medicine
• It assumes variety of forms, the major among them being hypothyroidism also known as myxedema and hyperthyroidism also known as throtoxicosis goitre. Natural Remedies for Curing Thyroid
• In myxedema, a condition characterized by a lack of thyroid secretion, there is dulness of the reflexes and of the intellect, a lowered muscular power, and generally a sluggish discharge of energy. The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers