myxedema
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Each condition can cause myxedema, the deposition of a mucuslike substance below the surface of the skin that makes the top layers, the epidermis, seem thicker.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
The investigators suggest that this dinitrophenol dose be tried cautiously for myxedema and other phenomena of sub-functioning thyroids.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pernicious anemia, he showed, is a deficiency disease in a category with diabetes and myxedema.
From Time Magazine Archive
For example, alterations in the efficiency of the cerebral link may yield neurasthenia, mania, dementia; of the thyroid link, Graves' disease, myxedema; of the adrenal link, Addison's disease, cardiovascular disease.
From Origin and Nature of Emotions by George W. (Washington) Crile
In 1888, Sir Felix Semon, as an outcome of a collective investigation, established for all time that cretinism, myxedema and post-operative myxedema were one and the same.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
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