- a variation of goiter.
goitre
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of goitre
C17: from French goitre, from Old French goitron, ultimately from Latin guttur throat
Example Sentences
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Hernia, goitre and the flowering boil Lie bare beneath his hands, for ever bare.
From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2020
By the early 1930s international Shanghai was, as Paul French puts it, “a festering goitre of badness”.
From Economist • Jul. 12, 2018
Last week, after a cheery visit from the King and Queen, Princess Mary went to a private sanatorium to have her goitre out.
From Time Magazine Archive
The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon may cut out part of her goitre.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next is a goitre case, too unpleasant for description.
From Caught by the Turks by Yeats-Brown, Francis
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