The term goitre is applied clinically to any non-inflammatory enlargement of the thyreoid gland. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
Some have even derived the word goitre from Got, or Goth; but their name. From Wordnik.com. [An Accursed Race] Reference
Fatal cases or secondary illnesses have become more and more of a rarity in goitre operations. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 - Presentation Speech] Reference
It may be that a goitre is a beauty in the eyes of many a young Nepaulese swain. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home] Reference
Wow, look at the size of that goitre...poor Eeyore. From Wordnik.com. [The Day the Spaceship Earth Stood Still] Reference
Not only was she overweight, she had an obvious goitre!. From Wordnik.com. [Food trends from Expo West | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
It undergoes great enlargement in the disease called goitre. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Iodine deficiency causes goitre and mental retardation in children. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
In Sicily there is a belief that anyone afflicted with goitre, who eats. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
One could also say: Such ‘blah-words’ are as superfluous as a goitre. From Wordnik.com. [With regard to ‘regarding’] Reference
She was generally breathless with hurry and the trouble of the goitre, and. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
In 1995, WHO estimated that the number of people with goitre was 750 million. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2] Reference
These goitre operations are generally supposed to be a recent triumph of surgery. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
We were surprised to see in these fertile plains how prevalent goitre is amongst the women. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference
Maybe "Saturday Night Live" will pay me double now that my goitre is almost the size of my head. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Shales Is So Right, Beautiful Women Are Terrible At Comedy] Reference
Actually, in localities where seaweeds are regularly eaten as food, goitre is completely unknown. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Why should the goitre-necked pin-headed creeping freepers out there worry about the pre-war intel?. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Patrick Kennedy, Rush Limbaugh and the Right Wing Cop-Out] Reference
Charlotte Blacklock went there to have her goitre removed and Rudi Scherz was one of the orderlies. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder Is Announced]
She was red-haired, with a large goitre over which her afternoon black frock would not quite button. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
Indeed there were only a few haggard, ugly old women, each with a bit of a beard and a large goitre. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
He and his pupils also wrote several papers on various aspects of cretinism and various aspects of goitre. From Wordnik.com. [Theodor Kocher - Biography] Reference
The people in this part of Szechuan seemed fairly prosperous, but the prevalence of goitre was very unpleasant. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
But she shut herself up more and more as the goitre became larger and more unsightly, and refused to see people. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder Is Announced]
In Ecuador, rural radio service broadcasts advertisements on the prevention of goitre, with satellite technology. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
However, it is not only the treatment of the goitre which has been the subject of Kocher's research on the goitre. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 - Presentation Speech] Reference
But I remembered then that the greatest authorities on goitre and the most skilful surgeons operating on it are Swiss. From Wordnik.com. [A Murder Is Announced]
In the thyroid, as already indicated, other diseases can occur in addition to those which arise with the ordinary goitre. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1909 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Here and there we passed Cszeks and slovaks, all in picturesque attire, but I noticed that goitre was painfully prevalent. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
The healers treat for burns, erysipelas and all skin diseases, goitre, tumors, rheumatism, and some other similar troubles. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
The peculiar disease called cretinism, as well as goitre, has been attributed to a predominance of certain chemicals in the soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
In addition, it may be as well to remember that death sometimes occurs suddenly in exophthalmic goitre, hypertrophy of the thymus, and in. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
With regard to goitre, Aëtius has some interesting details. From Wordnik.com. [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference
A case of belief in consumption with goitre was lately cured in the West. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith Doctor A Story of New York] Reference
"You haven't got a goitre, have you?" said Arnold Hatch, one evening, brutally. From Wordnik.com. [Gigolo] Reference
Penrod looked in the window and was rewarded by a fine view of Queenie's goitre. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod] Reference
I am far from attributing all goitre, even in the mountains, to this practice, but. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
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