NOUN
- an underactive thyroid gland; a glandular disorder resulting from insufficient production of thyroid hormones
How To Use hypothyroidism In A Sentence
- The presence of goiter, coarse hair, dry skin, carotenemia, and myxedema indicates hypothyroidism.
- The symptoms of both hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism are non-specific and can be mimicked by other conditions.
- Patients with myxedema present with rough skin of the palms, soles, elbows and knees, and yellow-orange discoloration of the skin, along with other signs of hypothyroidism.
- You review the symptoms of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism with her and find that she has none of them.
- Evaluation may also be appropriate for women who develop postpartum symptoms of hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism.
- The patients are usually clinically euthyroid, but signs of hypothyroidism and the myxedema syndrome though rare may occur. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
- Breast feeding should not be stopped in mothers treated with thyroxine for hypothyroidism even if the infant is hyperthyroid.
- Not surprisingly, and even though patients were taking amiodarone, pulse rate increases and ventricular ectopics recurred more commonly in those with hyperthyroidism, but not in those with hypothyroidism.
- Hypothyroidism can also develop secondary to hypothalamic and pituitary disorders.
- The Potbelly Syndrome was about an infectious cause of potbellies and Dr. Barnes focused primarily on the diagnosis and treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism. I’ve succumbed to Twitter | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.