cretin

[ UK /kɹˈɛtɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹitən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person of subnormal intelligence
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How To Use cretin In A Sentence

  • Once B cells have come into contact with an antigen they proliferate and differentiate into antibody secreting cells.
  • Then, too, a defect in the glands causes the disease known as myxedema in adults and cretinism in children. The War Terror
  • The particular form of idiocy known as cretinism is the result of this deficiency, which produces an arrest of the development of the brain cells. The Pivot of Civilization
  • Earthworms spend most of their time reproducing, eating and excreting, which is where their Hattiesburgamerican.com -
  • The duodenum is important in the secretion of a number of hormones, including secretin, cholecystokinin, and enteroglucagon.
  • These tiny blue-green algae refashioned their world by excreting oxygen while using hydrogen from water.
  • Scientist Kristin Tessmar-Raible from Arendt's lab directly compared two types of hormone-secreting nerve cells of zebrafish, a vertebrate, and the annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii, and found some stunning similarities. 2007 June - Telic Thoughts
  • In school he had to beg for food and the Nazis considered him "asocial" and "cretinous". Top stories from Times Online
  • It is sung, played, and written for the most part by cretinous goons, and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd—in plain fact, dirty—lyrics . . . it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. A Renegade History of the United States
  • He responded testily to questions about WikiLeaks's opaque finances, Private Manning's fate and WikiLeaks's apparent lack of accountability to anybody but himself, calling the questions "cretinous," "facile" and reminiscent of "kindergarten. NYT > Home Page
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