goitrous
[ goi-truhs ]
adjectivePathology.
pertaining to or affected with goiter.
Origin of goitrous
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How to use goitrous in a sentence
He was profoundly ill-proportioned, very goitrous, and ravages of small-pox had bequeathed to him a wonderful facial ugliness.
Across China on Foot | Edwin DingleIn the same quarter of the town, where this local industry is carried on, are many goitrous persons.
In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick StarrThe abandoned valleys of Savoy and Piedmont are goitrous, smitten, sterile.
The Old Road | Hilaire BellocIf the water supply of a goitrous valley be changed to a healthy spring, goitre and cretinism disappear.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. | Alexander MilesWe had been previously informed that the whole town was goitrous.
In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick Starr
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