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Myxedema (British English:
myxoedema) is a term used
synonymously with
severe hypothyroidism. However, the term is also used to
describe a dermatological...
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Pretibial myxedema (
myxoedema in
British English, also
known as Graves' dermopathy,
thyroid dermopathy, Jad****ohn-Dösseker
disease or
myxoedema tuberosum) is...
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contributions to
medical science,
including advancing the
understanding of
myxoedema, Bright's disease,
paraplegia and
anorexia nervosa (for
which he first...
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Myxedema coma is an
extreme or
decompensated form of
hypothyroidism and
while uncommon, is
potentially lethal. A
person may have
laboratory values identical...
- children,
infantile myxoedema-muscular hypertrophy, myopathy-
myxoedema syndrome,
myxoedema-muscular
hypertrophy syndrome,
myxoedema-myotonic dystrophy...
- insufficiency,
phaeochromocytoma crisis,
hypercalcemic crisis,
thyroid storm,
myxoedema coma and
pituitary apoplexy.
Emergencies arising from
decompensated pheochromocytomas...
- mythopoeia,
mythos myx-
slime Gr**** μύσσομαι, μύξα (múxa) match, myxedema,
myxoedema, Myxini,
myxogastrid myz- suck Gr**** μυζάω (muzáō), μύζησις (múzēsis)...
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myasthenia gravis Myotonic facies –
myotonic dystrophy Torpid facies –
myxoedema Mouse facies –
chronic kidney failure Plethoric facies – Cushing's syndrome...
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cause of hyperthyroidism;
hyposecretion causes cretinism in
infants and
myxoedema in adults.
Hyperparathyroidism results in
hypercalcemia and its effects...
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inventor of
kerosene refining Sir
William Withey Gull, the
first to
describe myxoedema and
coined the term
anorexia nervosa Edward Headlam Greenhow, physician...