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HYPHEN
CIDE DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
crete dittany | cretian | cretic | creticism | cretin | cretinism | cretinous | cretism | cretonne | cretose | creutzer

cretinism

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Noun
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cret=in=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

cretinismn. [F. crétinisme.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

cretinism

acromegaly, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, choriocarcinoma, diabetes, diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, dwarfism, giantism, half-wittedness, hyperglycemia, hyperparathyroidism, hypo-ovarianism, hypothyroidism, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantilism, insanity, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, panhypopituitarism, pheochromocytoma, profound idiocy, retardation, retardment, sexual precocity, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, subnormality, thyrotoxicosis, toxic goiter

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