Crossword clues for cretinism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cretinism \Cre"tin*ism\ (kr[=e]"t[i^]n*[i^]z'm), n. [F. cr['e]tinisme.] A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.
Wiktionary
n. (context disease English) A condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to the untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones.
WordNet
n. severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting
Wikipedia
Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormone ( congenital hypothyroidism) usually due to maternal hypothyroidism.
Usage examples of "cretinism".
There were entire sections devoted to insanity and cretinism, social and criminal pathology, suicide, pauperism and philanthropy, prison reform, prostitution and morphinism, capital punishment, abnormal psychology, legal codes, the argot of the underworld and code writing, toxicology, and police methods.
Brissaud shows the intimate relation between myxedema, endemic cretinism, sporadic cretinism, or myxedematous idiocy, and infantilism.
Figure 285 shows a case of myxedema, one of myxedema in a case of arrested development--a transition case between myxedema of the adult and sporadic cretinism--and a typical case of sporadic cretinism.
Unless you've more for sale than pretty pictures favoring the local cretinisms, I fear you waste our time.