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Cretinism - LoveToKnow 1911 (1239 words) |
 | The endemic form of cretinism prevails in certain districts, as in the valleys of central Switzerland, Tirol and the Pyrenees. |
| In Scotland cretins and cases of goitre have been seen in Perthshire, on the east coast of Fife, in Roxburgh, the upper portions of Peebles and Selkirk, near Lanark and Dumfries, in the east of Ayrshire, in the west of Berwick, the east of Wigtown, and in Kirkcudbright. |
| Wherever endemic goitre is present, endemic cretinism is present also, and it has been constantly observed that when a new family moves into a goitrous district, goitre appears in the first generation, cretinism in the second. |
| Asthma : GOITRE, Karuvachi blogs on sulekha, Health blogs, Karuvachi blog from india (888 words) |
| Goitre is a swelling in the neck due to enlarged tyroid glands. |
| Goitre was previously common in many areas that were deficient in iodine in the soil.. |
| A "diffuse goitre" is a goitre that has spread through all of the thyroid and is contrasted with a "simple goitre", "single thyroid nodule" and "multinodular goitre".. |
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