goitre

British  

/ ˈɡɔɪtə /

noun

1. pathol a swelling of the thyroid gland, in some cases nearly doubling the size of the neck, usually caused by under- or overproduction of hormone by the gland

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Other Word Forms

• goitred adjective
• goitrous adjective

Etymology

Origin of goitre

C17: from French goitre, from Old French goitron, ultimately from Latin guttur throat

Example Sentences

Hernia, goitre and the flowering boil Lie bare beneath his hands, for ever bare.

From The Guardian

His self-esteem swelled, a goitre of patriotic pride.

From The Guardian

By the early 1930s international Shanghai was, as Paul French puts it, “a festering goitre of badness”.

From Economist

It is usually a prominent feature in the affection known as Graves’ disease or exophthalmic goitre.

From Project Gutenberg

The “swelled neck” in lambs is, like the goitre, or bronchocele, an enlargement of the thyroid glands, and is strikingly analogous to that disease, if not identical with it.

From Project Gutenberg