Usage examples (5)

• Although, at this time, it was known that the thyroid gland is atrophied in myxoedema and in cretinism, it was not until 1892 that Murray discovered that administration...
• If too little thyroxin is produced myxoedema BMR may shrink to 30-40 percent of normal.
• Various morbid conditions are explained by this, among which are cretinism and myxoedema.
• In the early days an operator would occasionally remove too, much gland and then the symptoms, of myxoedema would occur.