cretinism in a sentence
Examples
- Even where goiter and cretinism are not apparent, iodine deficiency can cause chronic mental and physical fatigue and lesser degrees of mental impairment.
- Three years earlier, Charles Hilton Fagge, also of Guy's Hospital, had produced a paper on'sporadic cretinism '.
- It may even mean that Neanderthals could actually have been anatomically modern humans who were pathologically altered by iodine-deficiency diseases, like cretinism.
- Cretinism is caused either by dietary iodine deficiency or by malfunction or absence of the thyroid gland, which processes iodine into the thyroid hormone.
- "They are the shame of the period after the dictatorship, a monument of political cretinism and hypocrisy, " he wrote.
- Infants with thyroid hormone deficiency ( congenital hypothyroidism ) can manifest problems of physical growth and development as well as brain development, termed cretinism.
- During development, hypothyroidism is considered more severe and leads to neurotoxicity as cretinism or other human cognitive disorders, altered metabolism and underdeveloped organs.
- Patients with Down syndrome and cretinism have delayed tooth eruption, and prolonged thumb-sucking may cause problems with mouth growth and tooth alignment.
- Ironically, it was his precise surgery that allowed Kocher to remove the thyroid gland almost completely and led to the severe side effects of cretinism.
- Aberrations in prenatal development can result in various forms of thyroid dysgenesis which can cause congenital hypothyroidism, and if untreated this can lead to cretinism.