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
Item: President Andr� Crotti of the I. C. S., a Columbus, Ohio surgeon, declared that goitre is usually caused, not by lack of iodine, but by toxins produced by a fungus which grows on cabbages.
From Time Magazine Archive
A goitre produces more thyroid hormone than the body requires, observed Dr. Lahey, causes more energy to be dissipated than the body can afford to expend.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
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