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Webster 1913 Edition


Cretinism

Cre′tin-ism

(krē′tĭn-ĭz’m)
,
Noun.
[F.
crétinisme
.]
A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.