cretinism

Cretinism is used as a term of abuse isn't it?

Everything he did was idiotic and all his proposals were sheer cretinism.

No effect of iodine deficiency is more sadly dramatic than cretinism.

Because they were that stupid; it was cretinism carried to the dimension of the satanic.

They resemble, in many respect, patients laboring under cretinism.

The oral stories about strange human-like creatures may also be a record of cretinism.

By several years of age, they would display the recognizable facial and body features of cretinism.

Patients who are diagnosed with Down syndrome and cretinism have delayed tooth eruption.

Such deficiencies lead to goiter, nervous system damage, growth retardation and cretinism.

Marx wrote that labor "produces culture, but also imbecility and cretinism for the worker."

Between 1874-82, he was the first Swiss doctor to follow up on the development of cretinism in a young girl after a complete thyroidectomy.

A greater distance separates the largest two toes of some people exhibiting Down syndrome or cretinism."

"There was no greater cretinism than that," he says, referring to his generation's soft spot for third-world totalitarianism.

Low thyroid levels cause cretinism, but that is reversible with thyroid supplements.

There, he saw a large number of people suffering from the illness of cretinism, which became a subject of his paintings.

Cretinism arises from a diet deficient in iodine.

Sporadic and genetic cretinism results from abnormal development or function of the foetal thyroid gland.

Severe hypothyroidism in infants can result in cretinism.

In adults, Cretinism results in mental deterioration, swelling of the skin, loss of water and hair.

In newborns, it is the cause of a rare condition called cretinism, whose symptoms are stunted growth and mental retardation.

By detecting thyroid problems early, hypothyroidism, cretinism and thyroid cancers can often be prevented.

I submit that in some areas on ancient Earth, iodine was put into the public water-supply systems to prevent goiters and cretinism.

In extreme cases, iodine deficiency can lead to cretinism, a disorder that involves severely stunted physical and mental growth.

Severe deficiencies cause cretinism, stillbirth and miscarriage.

It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland.