myxedema

How To Use myxedema In A Sentence

• The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
• Thyroid deficiency in children gives rise to a form of idiocy, bodily malformation and degeneracy known as cretinism, while in adult life it is associated with a similar disorder known as myxedema. Vitality Supreme
• The removal of the thyroid might result in severe myxedema, but the patient at least remains alive. The Human Brain
• Thyroid deficiency in children gives rise to a form of idiocy, bodily malformation and degeneracy known as cretinism, while in adult life it is associated with a similar disorder known as myxedema. Vitality Supreme
• The presence of goiter, coarse hair, dry skin, carotenemia, and myxedema indicates hypothyroidism.
• -- General dropsy, elephantiasis, lipomata, myxedema, and various other affections in which there is a hypertrophic change of the connective tissues may be mistaken for general obesity; on the other hand, a fatty, pendulous abdomen may simulate the appearances of pregnancy or even of ovarian cyst. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
• A common misconception is that a patient must be comatose to be diagnosed with myxedema coma.
• 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
• 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.