How To Use Myxedema In A Sentence
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The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
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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
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The removal of the thyroid might result in severe myxedema, but the patient at least remains alive.
The Human Brain
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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
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The presence of goiter, coarse hair, dry skin, carotenemia, and myxedema indicates hypothyroidism.
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-- 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
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The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.
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A common misconception is that a patient must be comatose to be diagnosed with myxedema coma.
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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
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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.
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-- 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 (Fig. 172).
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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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.
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Then, too, a defect in the glands causes the disease known as myxedema in adults and cretinism in children.
The War Terror
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Any patient with suspected myxedema coma should be treated presumptively with thyroid hormone.
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After description of the myxedema condition, transplantation and injection of extracts of thyroid tissue was tried.
Emil Theodor Kocher
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In myxedema, a condition characterized by a lack of thyroid secretion, there is dulness of the reflexes and of the intellect, a lowered muscular power, and generally a sluggish discharge of energy.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
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It assumes variety of forms, the major among them being hypothyroidism also known as myxedema and hyperthyroidism also known as throtoxicosis goitre.
Natural Remedies for Curing Thyroid
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It has been shown experimentally in various ways that the necessary elements of the secretion can be furnished by feeding with the gland or its extracts, and that the cretinoid or myxedematous conditions could thus be cured or prevented.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine
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He holds that the observations in myxedema, in obesity, and psoriasis warrant the belief that the thyroid gland eliminates a material having a regulating influence upon the constitution of the panniculus adiposus and upon the nutrition of the skin in general.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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He holds that the observations in myxedema, in obesity, and psoriasis warrant the belief that the thyroid gland eliminates a material having a regulating influence upon the constitution of the panniculus adiposus and upon the nutrition of the skin in general.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The presence of goiter, coarse hair, dry skin, carotenemia, and myxedema indicates hypothyroidism.
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-- In myxedema one of the cardinal symptoms is a persistently subnormal temperature and, though prone to infection, subjects of myxedema show but feeble febrile response and readily succumb.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
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For example, alterations in the efficiency of the cerebral link may yield neurasthenia, mania, dementia; of the thyroid link, Graves 'disease, myxedema; of the adrenal link, Addison's disease, cardiovascular disease.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers
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The differential diagnosis includes venous stasis dermatitis, pretibial myxedema, filariasis, and ichthyosis.