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
Pernicious anemia, he showed, is a deficiency disease in a category with diabetes and myxedema.
From Time Magazine Archive
The investigators suggest that this dinitrophenol dose be tried cautiously for myxedema and other phenomena of sub-functioning thyroids.
From Time Magazine Archive
Experimental removal of the pituitary was essayed by Horsley in 1886, the same man who two years before had reproduced myxedema successfully in monkeys.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
In 1884, Sir Victor Horsley produced an experimental myxedema by removal of the thyroid in monkeys, resembling closely in its symptom-picture the disease as it occurs in human beings.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
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