Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disease caused by decreased activity of the thyroid gland in adults and characterized by dry skin, swellings around the lips and nose, mental deterioration, and a subnormal basal metabolic rate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disease having the following characters:
- noun It has been found that this affection is usually entirely amenable to treatment by extracts and other preparations made from the thyroid gland (throat-sweetbread) of the sheep. The same treatment is often of great value in cretinism, which is regarded as a congenital form of myxedema. The use of preparations of the thyroid gland to supply a deficiency of the secretion of this gland, which is the underlying defect in myxedema and cretinism, affords one of the most brilliant examples of successful organotherapy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A pathological condition due to severe hyperthyroidism, marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental and physical deterioration.
- noun (Med.) A disease producing a peculiar cretinoid appearance of the face, slow speech, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A form of
cutaneous anddermal edema that is secondary to increaseddeposition ofconnective tissue components insubcutaneous tissue.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hypothyroidism marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration
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Examples
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It assumes variety of forms, the major among them being hypothyroidism also known as myxedema and hyperthyroidism also known as throtoxicosis goitre.
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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 1908
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After description of the myxedema condition, transplantation and injection of extracts of thyroid tissue was tried.
Emil Theodor Kocher 1997
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The patients are usually clinically euthyroid, but signs of hypothyroidism and the myxedema syndrome though rare may occur.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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The removal of the thyroid might result in severe myxedema, but the patient at least remains alive.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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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 1915
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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 1915
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-- 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 1915
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Thyroid deficiency in children gives rise to a form of idiocy, bodily malformation and degeneracy known as cretinism, while in adult life it is associated with a similar disorder known as myxedema.
Vitality Supreme Bernarr Macfadden 1911
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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.
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