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Definition of Goitrous
1. a. Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.
Definition of Goitrous
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a goitre ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goitrous
1. goiter [adj] - See also: goiter
Medical Definition of Goitrous
1. Denoting or characteristic of a goiter. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goitrous
Literary usage of Goitrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1919)
"It has been applied to the goitrous and feeble-minded natives of localities where
goiter is endemic. Certain valleys in France, Spain, Italy, ..."
2. Endemic Goitre Or Thyreocele: Being the Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of by William Robinson (1885)
"Wherever the latter occurs there also is the former found ; but there are some
goitrous districts in which there are few or no cretins. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The disease is absent in regions fed from waters of crystalline formation.
Through Bircher*s suggestion of supplying a goitrous region in ..."
4. A Treatise on the theory and practice of medicine by John Syer Bristowe (1879)
"Wherever goitre prevails largely there cretinism is also prevalent ; the goitrous
tendency, however, occupies a wider area, and goitrous persons always ..."
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