1. No effect of iodine deficiency is more sadly dramatic than cretinism . 2. Iohannis criticized these statements, describing them as " cretinisms ". 3. Dobson even sees hints of Neanderthal cretinism in Cro-Magnon art. 4. However, the endemic cretinism idea is mentioned only in the lead. 5. Cretinism is a congenital deformity and mental retardation caused by deficient thyroid secretions.6. Such deficiencies lead to goiter, nervous system damage, growth retardation, and cretinism . 7. Sporadic and genetic cretinism results from abnormal development or growth of the foetal thyroid gland. 8. Numerous authors described cretinism , myxoedema their relationship with the thyroid in the nineteenth century. 9. The oral stories about strange human-like creatures may also be a record of cretinism . 10. A Gibbus deformity may result from the sail vertebrae associated with cretinism , the childhood form of hypothyroidism.
