noun
definition
A condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to the untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones.
Examples of cretinism in a Sentence
Littre defines them as "a people of the Pyrenees affected with a kind of cretinism."
On the other hand to rely on such an outcome is to descend headlong into parliamentary cretinism.
In the United States, newborn infants between 24 and 72 hours old are tested for congenital thyroid deficiency (cretinism) using a test that measures the levels of thyroxine in the infant's blood.
Iodine deficiency during pregnancy can result in cretinism in newborns, involving mental retardation and a large tongue.
Goiter is reversible with treatment but cretinism is not.
To-day their descendants are not more subject to goitre and cretinism than those dwelling around them, and are recognized by tradition and not by features or physical degeneracy.