Definition of Myxoedema. Meaning of Myxoedema. Synonyms of Myxoedema

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Definition of Myxoedema

Myxoedema
Myxoedema Myx`[oe]*de"ma, n. [NL. fr. Gr. ? mucus + [oe]dema.] (Med.) A disease producing a peculiar cretinoid appearance of the face, slow speech, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland. -- Myx`[oe]*dem"a*tous, a., Myx`[oe]*dem"ic, a.

Meaning of Myxoedema from wikipedia

- Myxedema (British English: myxoedema) is a term used synonymously with severe hypothyroidism. However, the term is also used to describe a dermatological...
- Pretibial myxedema (myxoedema in British English, also known as Graves' dermopathy, thyroid dermopathy, Jad****ohn-Dösseker disease or myxoedema tuberosum) is...
- contributions to medical science, including advancing the understanding of myxoedema, Bright's disease, paraplegia and anorexia nervosa (for which he first...
- 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)...
- myasthenia gravis Myotonic faciesmyotonic dystrophy Torpid faciesmyxoedema Mouse facieschronic kidney failure Plethoric facies – Cushing's syndrome...
- cause of hyperthyroidism; hyposecretion causes cretinism in infants and myxoedema in adults. Hyperparathyroidism results in hypercalcemia and its effects...
- inventor of kerosene refining Sir William Withey Gull, the first to describe myxoedema and coined the term anorexia nervosa Edward Headlam Greenhow, physician...