cretinism
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The late Gore Vidal explained that one of his ambitions as a historian and novelist was to determine “when the great cretinism began in the United States…when people got really dumb.”
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2024
In children, hypothyroidism can cause cretinism, which can lead to mental retardation and growth defects.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Neither cretinism, Laron syndrome nor Down's syndrome duplicate the full suite of features.
From Nature ● Oct. 21, 2014
I was reduced, during her book’s final third, to puddle-eyed cretinism.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2012
Plagues and pestilences of all kinds, cretinism too, and all scrofulous disorders, are probably mere questions of ventilation.
From Friends in Council — First Series by Sir Arthur Helps
