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Cretinism, deficiency disease caused by congenital absence of thyroxine, a hormone secreted by the thyroid gland, and characterized by disorders of...

Cretinism, a result of a disease of the thyroid gland, is the cause of most dwarfism in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Other causes of...

Thyroxine, also tetraiodothyronine (T₄), main hormone secreted by the thyroid gland. The function of this and the other thyroid hormone,...

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	Advertisement Windows Live® Search Results 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). cretinism - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about cretinism All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. cretinism - definition of cretinism by the Free Online Dictionary ... cre·tin·ism (kr t n-z m) n. A congenital condition caused by a deficiency of thyroid hormone during prenatal development and characterized in childhood by dwarfed stature ... See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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