myxoedemicmyxedemicadj.
/ˌmɪksᵻˈdiːmɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɪksəˈdimɪk/ Medicine.
= myxoedematous adj.
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myxoedematous1886
myxoedemic1896
thyrotoxic1904
1896 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 42 185 The mental symptoms of all myxœdemic patients border on insanity.
1898 Arch. Surg. 9 351 Her own description of her myxœdemic symptoms is that she became yellow or creamy looking with habitually bluish lips.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) I. x. 36/1 These patients do not show the characteristics of myxoedemic cretinism such as coarseness of features, thick dry skin or sluggish movement, but share the intellectual retardation.
1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind xviii. 564 In 1891 George Redmayne Murray (1865–1939) reported the improvement of a forty-six-year-old myxoedemic woman treated with sheep's thyroid injections.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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