Meanings
comparative more cretinic · superlative most cretinic
- datedmedicineExhibiting or relating to cretinism.
He recollected a gentleman in Admont who had a dog that gave birth to five young, three of which were cretinic, the other two feeble.
1906, Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology, page 2601 more example
Originally we did not consider this case as one of pituitary cretinism because the initial clinical appearance and findings and the response to thyroid therapy were typically cretinic.
1944, United States. Office of War Information, Symposium on Recent Advances in Medicine, page 1403
Origin
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