Then, too, a defect in the glands causes the disease known as myxedema in adults and cretinism in children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Terror] Reference

It assumes variety of forms, the major among them being hypothyroidism also known as myxedema and hyperthyroidism also known as throtoxicosis goitre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Remedies for Curing Thyroid] Reference

After description of the myxedema condition, transplantation and injection of extracts of thyroid tissue was tried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emil Theodor Kocher] Reference

The patients are usually clinically euthyroid, but signs of hypothyroidism and the myxedema syndrome though rare may occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Cases of myxedema and sporadic cretinism (Brissaud).    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

One can see that these are typical features of myxedema.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Many women (and men) may die, slipping into myxedema coma.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

Acute psychosis (myxedema madness) is a rare presentation of hypothyroidism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes] Reference

A condition akin to myxedema occurs after operative removal of the thyroid gland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

She developed respiratory failure in the hospital and fell into a myxedema (thyroid-induced) coma.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Thyroid Disease] Reference

My body slowly rejected the Levothyroxin and I ended up in the hospital, they said close to a myxedema coma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes] Reference

Poutingly, as i the lasciviousness and the myxedema symbolatry reggane for the irresponsible ghostly shortness of the longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

The disease is not myxedema because there is no peculiar physiognomy, no spade-like hands nor infiltrated skin, no alteration of the speech, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Certain medical conditions such as Crohn's disease, glucagonoma, hives, myxedema, psoriasis, eczema and hereditary angioedema are responsible for swollen lips.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In myxedema one of the cardinal symptoms is a persistently subnormal temperature and, though prone to infection, subjects of myxedema show but feeble febrile response and readily succumb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference

Thyroid deficiency in children gives rise to a form of idiocy, bodily malformation and degeneracy known as cretinism, while in adult life it is associated with a similar disorder known as myxedema.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitality Supreme] Reference

In myxedema, a condition characterized by a lack of thyroid secretion, there is dulness of the reflexes and of the intellect, a lowered muscular power, and generally a sluggish discharge of energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference

Congenital asymmetry and hemihypertrophy of the body are most peculiar anomalies and must not be confounded with acromegaly or myxedema, in both of which there is similar lack of symmetric development.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Figure 285 shows a case of myxedema, one of myxedema in a case of arrested development -- a transition case between myxedema of the adult and sporadic cretinism -- and a typical case of sporadic cretinism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers] Reference

Case of infantile myxedema (West): the picture in the center represents the case after six months 'thyroid treatment; the picture on the right, after one year's treatment. and minerally, and is famous for its medicinal springs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Recently, Leichtenstein, observing in a case of myxedema treated with the thyroid gland that the subcutaneous fat disappeared with the continuance of the treatment, was led to adopt this treatment for obesity itself and reports striking results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Recently, Leichtenstein, 7.71 observing in a case of myxedema treated with the thyroid gland that the subcutaneous fat disappeared with the continuance of the treatment, was led to adopt this treatment for obesity itself and reports striking results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

He holds that the observations in myxedema, in obesity, and psoriasis warrant the belief that the thyroid gland eliminates a material having a regulating influence upon the constitution of the panniculus adiposus and upon the nutrition of the skin in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Differential diagnosis Congenital hypothyroidism Characteristic features: features dry and coarse skin myxedema subnormal body temperature the lower segment is shorter than the upper retardation of physical and mental development The serum calcium and phosphate are normal X-ray shows a delay in appearance of ossification centers in bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The symptoms of myxedema, as given by Ord, are marked increase in the general bulk of the body, a firm, inelastic swelling of the skin, which does not pit on pressure; dryness and roughness which tend, with swelling, to obliterate the lines of expression in the face; imperfect nutrition of the hair; local tumefaction of the skin and subcutaneous tissues, particularly in the supraclavicular region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Low thyroid hormone (hypothyroidism) causes fish scale–like thickening of the skin that’s rough and dry (myxedema).    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference

myxedema, 33.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Skin Beauty] Reference