goitre
Britishnoun
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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
The difficulty is especially perplexing in the case of exophthalmic goitre.
From Time Magazine Archive
All this led Dr. King to suspect that the most frequently infected gland of the neck, the tonsils, might be the cause of exophthalmic goitre.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are many instances illustrating the apparent heredity of goitre.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
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