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• Cretinism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Cretinism is a condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones (hypothyroidism) or from prolonged nutritional ...

• Iodine deficiency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Cretinism is a condition associated with iodine deficiency and goitre, commonly characterised by mental deficiency, deaf-mutism, squint, disorders of stance and gait, stunted ...

• cretinism definition of cretinism in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

  cretinism (krē`tənĭz'əm), condition produced in infants and children due to lack of thyroid hormone. It usually results from a congenital defect (e.g., absence of the thyroid ...