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单词 goitre
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goitren.

Brit. /ˈɡɔɪtə/, U.S. /ˈɡɔɪdər/
Forms: 1600s gouitre, goytre, 1600s–1700s goistre, 1700s goter, 1700s, 1800s U.S. goiter, 1800s goiture ( goto), 1700s– goître, 1600s– goitre.
Etymology: < French goitre, goître, back-formation < goitreux, < Provençal goitros < popular Latin *gutturiōsum, < guttur throat.
1. Pathology. A morbid (often enormously developed) enlargement of the thyroid gland of the neck; bronchocele.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > goitre
wen1530
strume1559
struma1565
Bavarian poke1621
goitre1625
bronchocele1657
throat rupture1662
strumosity1674
Derby neck1769
Derbyshire neck1802
tracheocele1828
Graves's disease1868
thyrocele1886
strumitis1889
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. 1624 The Gouitres of Sauoye.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xlii. 86 The peeple who dwell in the Valleys..are subject to a strange swelling in the Throat, call'd Goytre.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 5 The Goistre of Piedmont.
1693 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 638 Persons..troubled with these disfiguring Goitres.
1752 ‘H. Beaumont’ Crito 49 That sort of Swellings in the Neck, which they call Goters.
1838 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) VI. 379 Those inhabitants of the Alps who suffer with goitres.
1871 S. Smiles Character vi. 175 There is a village in South America where gotos or goitres are so common that to be without one is regarded as a deformity.
figurative and in extended use.1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 206 In Rome they [domes] are so much the fashion that I felt as if they were the goitre of architecture.1860 R. W. Emerson Culture in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 117 This goître of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that [etc.].
2. A swelling of the neck in certain lizards.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of reptiles > [noun]
goitre1834
red-leg1905
mouth rot1946
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (new ed.) II. 31 The greater proportion of them [Anolis] have a dewlap or goitre under the throat.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxii. 430 They [the Guanas] are remarkable—as well as the Anolis, for the kind of goitre in their throat, which..they can inflate to a large size.

Compounds

goitre-stick n. the stems of the Sargassum bacciferum (see quot.).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for thyroid conditions > plant-derived
goitre-stick1860
1860 R. Fowler Med. Vocab. Goitre-sticks, the stems of a sea-weed, chewed in South America as a remedy for goitre.

Derivatives

ˈgoitral adj. [-al suffix1] = goitrous adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [adjective] > goitre
wenny1630
goitrous1796
goitral1836
goitred1851
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 471/2 The goitral..affections..are striking examples of the effect of hereditary influence.
ˈgoitred adj. [-ed suffix2] = goitrous adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [adjective] > goitre
wenny1630
goitrous1796
goitral1836
goitred1851
1851 E. Ruskin Let. 24 Aug. in Effie in Venice (1965) ii. 183 The number of Cretins and Goitred persons is perfectly dreadful.
1923 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 152/1 A gentle frog-like croak proceeded from the goitred throat.
goitre-like adj.
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1849 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom (new ed.) 277 The greater number have a goitre-like appendage under the throat.
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