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What does cretinism mean?

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  1. (medicine) A condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to the untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones.
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Radioiodine therapy is contraindicated during pregnancy as it can cross the placenta and cause fetal hypothyroidism and cretinism.
So cretinism was in a fair way to spread all over the valley from this spot.
To base participation in elections on how democratic the institutional facades of the capitalist state are is truly parliamentary cretinism.
The severe effects of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, such as anaemia, cretinism and blindness, have long been known.
It is the source of cretinism, which impairs physical development, and can lead to serious mental disabilities.
Such doses of thyroid may, of course, have a beneficial action in a limited number of cases of myxedema and cretinism.

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