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Abnormally enlarged thyroid gland
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goiter
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from French goître (16c.), from Rhône dialect, from Old Provençal goitron "throat, gullet," from Vulgar Latin *gutturiosum or *gutturionem , from Latin guttur "throat" (see guttural ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from under-production or over-production of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet [syn: goitre , struma , thyromegaly ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of goitre English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goiter \Goi"ter\ Goitre \Goi"tre\, n. [F. go[^i]tre, L. guttur throat, cf. tumidum guttur goiter, gutturosus goitered. See Guttural .] (Med.) An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck, usually resulting from iodine deficiency; ...
Usage examples of goiter.
The accompanying illustration pictures an extreme ease of cystic goiter shown by Warren.
They are usually stupid, often to the verge of idiocy, and much subject to goiter and scrofulous affections.
A short fierce man with bushy eyebrows and a goiter by his left ear angrily pushed past me and ran from one dish to another sniffing, tasting, and stirring.
The most hardened fisherwomen fled, convinced that looking at the monster could induce goiter, swivel eye, or miscarriage.
The Emperor has one undescended testicle, and the other is swollen to the size of a Numidian orange, a goiter, perhaps, or a cancer, a state of affairs about which he is quite defensive.
Judge van der Poole had a goiter that rested on his bony neck like a perky second head, a fact which might have been easier to overlook if he did not have the habit of stroking it thoughtfully as he read the papers before him.
It was intended to delineate our National Bird--the American Eagle--however, something had happened to her measurements at the time, or the noble bird had developed a pronounced goiter meantime.
He was the biggest Montagnard we had pretty near, and he had a goiter problem, a big lump on his neck.
Bandy-legged, hands in his trouser pockets, he stands there wheezing, for he already has a goiter and can breathe only with difficulty.
I expect a pink lizard with a goiter condition to know what a bear is?
Ranjeesh bought this place, it was a guesthouse, and one night a woman with three goiters on her neck came to spend the night.
Around midnight the Khaa rolled into her room and was struck by the sight of her goiters rising and falling as she breathed.
When she woke, she had seven goiters, no gold, and she could never eat bread again the rest of her life.
We went one night up in Detroit and people was being healed left and right of back trouble, blindness, bunions, goiters, liver problems, ringworm, you name it.
In their bathrobes, with uncombed hair, all of them wrong sizes and shapes and colors, with goiters and harelips and missing limbs and extra limbs.