The malady is generally ascribed to the use of drinking water impregnated with the salts of lime and magnesia, in which ingredients the water of goitrous districts abounds.
The children of goitrous parents are often born with these swellings; but there are also instances of children born with goitres, whose parents are free from them.
On the green outside their cabin a husband with goitre, enraged against his goitrous wife, was kept from killing her by two elderly goitrous women.
Frequently the disease is intensified in the offspring into cretinism, and I can conceive of no sight more disgusting than that which so often met our view, of a goitrous mother suckling her imbecile child.
All were speaking with horrible goitrous voices as if they had cleft palates, and the husband was hoarse with fury.
The person at present connected with her in the bonds of wedded life--also goitrousand morally repulsive--stood by and gazed down upon her like a proud bridegroom.
A goitrous man came to me and waxed eloquent about some uncontrollable pig which was dragging him all over the roadway as he vainly tried to get it to market.
Over to the left I saw an unhappy little urchin, hardly a rag covering his shivering, bleeding body, grovelling piteously in the snow, while his blind and goitrous mother did her best at gathering firewood with a hatchet.
Some Szech'wan coolies and myself had rice together on a low form away from the smoke, and the while listened to some tales of old, told by some half-witted, goitrous monster who seemed sadly out at elbow.
Outside of the throat we must remember the significance of glandular swellings or scars of suppurated glands in children; nor overlook, if present, stiffness of the muscles, or torticollis, or goitrous enlargement of the thyroid gland.
In the same quarter of the town, where this local industry is carried on, are many goitrous persons.
The former prevalence of the disease is abundantly suggested by the frequency of deaf-mutes, a score or more of whom live here--all children of goitrous parents.
Thus it has been recorded that a male dog showed a large goitrous swelling of the thyroid in the neck, with a rapid heart, staring eyes, the loss of flesh and fat and the nervousness of a hyperthyroid condition.
A goitre is a thing to be prized, exhibited, preserved--it is worth so much hard cash; and it is an unquestionable fact that the perpetuation of the great goitrous family is assisted by this very circumstance.
No wonder that the prefet for Haute-Savoie proposes that goitrous persons shall no longer be privileged.
It is true that cretins are very generally goitrous, but it is also true that there are tens of thousands of goitrous persons who are entirely free from all traces of cretinism.
That the last factor has some influence is shown by the fact that goitrous enlargements are encountered in medical practice in Chicago much more frequently than among the corresponding classes in the East.
Clarke,[177] of Kingston, Ontario, who found in the Canadian asylums a large number of goitrous patients and one goitrous attendant.
The goitrous patients, who were of long residence, had come from all parts of the dominion.
Children born in a goitrous district are liable to be cretins, while if goitrous parents move to a healthy district, the children are born healthy.
If the water supply of a goitrousvalley be changed to a healthy spring, goitre and cretinism disappear.
The patient should change his residence to a non-goitrous district.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goitrous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
