cretinic
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cretinic (comparative more cretinic, superlative most cretinic)
- (medicine, dated) Exhibiting or relating to cretinism.
- 1906, Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology, page 260:
- He recollected a gentleman in Admont who had a dog that gave birth to five young, three of which were cretinic, the other two feeble.
- 1944, United States. Office of War Information, Symposium on Recent Advances in Medicine, page 1403:
- Originally we did not consider this case as one of pituitary cretinism because the initial clinical appearance and findings and the response to thyroid therapy were typically cretinic.