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. |