Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling, in symptoms, a cretin.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with cretinism

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Examples

  • This eleven year old girl had a successful removal of her thyroid, but afterwards she became very tired, showed no signs of initiative and became cretinoid.

    Emil Theodor Kocher 1997

  • Nine years after the operation she stopped growing and became cretinoid.

    Emil Theodor Kocher 1997

  • I had devoted no more than a footnote to Paul Buhle, who had ludicrously described Karl Kautsky, Louis Althusser, and Harry Pollitt as "cretinoid intellectuals of Europe."

    Revisiting American Communism: An Exchange Barrett, James R. 1985

  • 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 1921

  • The disease was first described by Sir William Gull as a cretinoid change, and later by William Ord of London, who suggested the name.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • William Gull as a cretinoid change, and later by William Ord of London, who suggested the name.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • 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 A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884

  • If I did not think that what the British State is deliberately trying to do, to turn 70 million people into cretinoid uncritical enslaved barnyard animals, on purpose and via long-term strategic (and focussed) planning, I would think it was merely funny … …. it can dictate a "policy" about how our bodies go about interacting with other bodies.

    The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG 2009

  • All I could get is this cretinoid page written by some Al Bundy who couldn't possibly think of a proxy with authentication as one of the reasons to fail:

    Planète Béranger v3 2008

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