| 1. | No effect of iodine deficiency is more sadly dramatic than cretinism.
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| 2. | Iohannis criticized these statements, describing them as " cretinisms ".
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| 3. | Dobson even sees hints of Neanderthal cretinism in Cro-Magnon art.
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| 4. | However, the endemic cretinism idea is mentioned only in the lead.
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| 5. | Cretinism is a congenital deformity and mental retardation caused by deficient thyroid secretions.
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| 6. | Such deficiencies lead to goiter, nervous system damage, growth retardation, and cretinism.
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| 7. | Sporadic and genetic cretinism results from abnormal development or growth of the foetal thyroid gland.
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| 8. | Numerous authors described cretinism, myxoedema their relationship with the thyroid in the nineteenth century.
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| 9. | The oral stories about strange human-like creatures may also be a record of cretinism.
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| 10. | A Gibbus deformity may result from the sail vertebrae associated with cretinism, the childhood form of hypothyroidism.
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