- a variation of goiter.
goitre
Britishnoun
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Etymology
Origin of goitre
C17: from French goitre, from Old French goitron, ultimately from Latin guttur throat
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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
In front of her larynx a goitre grew for 15 years and checked her wind power, finally reducing it 50%.
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
In exophthalmic goitre the bronchocele is but one of three phenomena, which together constitute the disease, viz. palpitation of the heart, enlargement of the thyroid gland, and protrusion of the eyeballs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
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