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Definition of Myxedema
1. Noun. Hypothyroidism marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration.
Definition of Myxedema
1. Noun. (pathology) A form of cutaneous and dermal edema that is secondary to increased deposition of connective tissue components in subcutaneous tissue. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Myxedema
1. a disease caused by decreased activity of the thyroid gland [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myxedema
Literary usage of Myxedema
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"There are, however, some patients with early, mild, or atypical types of myxedema
wherein the symptoms and signs may be very suggestive, ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Scleroderma and the edema of nephritis are easy to nile out. There may be more
difficulty in distinguishing true myxedema from fugacious edemas at the ..."
3. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"myxedema. Under the generic term of myxedema it is proposed to bring together
those clinical variations of nutritive disorder dependent upon partial or ..."
4. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"The various subgroups have grown up clinically since Gull, in 1873, first called
attention to myxedema. They are still in great need of clearer ..."
5. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"This form of myxedema is more frequently seen in association with ... myxedema never
precedes, occasionally accompanies, but most frequently follows ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"myxedema—Hypothyroidism Deficient secretion of the thyroid gland is ...
Congenital myxedema.—A cretin gives evidence of deficiency of the thyroid gland ..."
7. The Thyroid Gland by Cleveland Clinic Foundation, George Washington Crile (1922)
"myxedema myxedema may be congenital in origin, in which case it is due to the
absence of the ... In cases of congenital myxedema the child fails to develop ..."
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