Associations to the word «Cretinism»

Wiktionary

CRETINISM, noun. (disease) A condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to the untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones.

Dictionary definition

CRETINISM, noun. Severe hypothyroidism resulting in physical and mental stunting.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin