cretinoidn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈkrɛtᵻnɔɪd/, U.S.

/ˈkritnˌɔɪd/

Forms: 1800s cretinoïd, 1800s– cretinoid.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cretin n., -oid suffix.

Etymology: < cretin n. + -oid suffix. With use as adjective compare earlier cretinous adj.

A. n.

An individual who resembles a person affected by cretinism; (also, spec.) an individual affected by cretinism who has relatively little brain damage, or an individual who has severe hypothyroidism beginning after infancy or childhood. Now rare and chiefly historical.Cf. semi-cretin n. at semi- prefix 2d.

ΚΠ

1861 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 7 75 When does a man in any sense, not by the laws of the realm, but by those of logic, become a cretin or cretinoid?

1895 Trans. Sixteenth Ann. Meeting Amer. Laryngol. Assoc. 142 As for the conditions described by European writers as those of semi-cretins and cretinoids, I believe they are numerous.

1904 M. W. Barr Mental Defectives viii. 201 The isolated examples of cretinism that are now found in this country and England can hardly be called true cretinism. These are, therefore better classified as demi-cretins, or cretinoids.

2010 Best Pract. & Res. Clin. Endocrinol. & Metabolism 24 47 Terms such as ‘sub-cretin’ and ‘cretinoid’ are used to describe these subjects.

B. adj.

Resembling or characteristic of cretinism or of a person affected by this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [adjective] > type of

idiot born1791

cretinous1793

cretinoid1862

Mongolian1866

Mongol1876

amaurotic1896

Mongoloid1899

moronic1910

infantilistic1930

1862 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 29 502 It appeared to me of interest to ascertain whether bronchocele prevails in any part of Scotland, and if so, whether the form of idiocy in that district presents any of the cretinoïd characters.

1874 W. W. Gull in Trans. Clin. Soc. 7 180 (title) On a cretinoid state supervening in adult life in women.

1908 W. A. N. Dorland Age of Mental Virility ii. 36 Nasal abbreviation is one of the well-known signs of degeneracy, as is also..the sugar-loaf skull, the close-set eyes, and other physiognomic irregularities, including the cretinoid face.

1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings (1995) xxv. 193 You succeeded in producing a chronic myxoedema, a cretinoid state, with the tissue-changes, physical and mental hebetude, memory loss, the alteration in excretions, temperature, and voice.

2008 Internat. Jrnl. Developmental Neurosci. 26 165/2 These results suggest generally longer periods of plasticity of the brain and better prospects from neonatal cretinoid retardation than commonly believed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cretinoid
释义	cretinoidn.adj. Brit. /ˈkrɛtᵻnɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈkritnˌɔɪd/ Forms: 1800s cretinoïd, 1800s– cretinoid. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cretin n., -oid suffix. Etymology: < cretin n. + -oid suffix. With use as adjective compare earlier cretinous adj. A. n. An individual who resembles a person affected by cretinism; (also, spec.) an individual affected by cretinism who has relatively little brain damage, or an individual who has severe hypothyroidism beginning after infancy or childhood. Now rare and chiefly historical.Cf. semi-cretin n. at semi- prefix 2d. ΚΠ 1861 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 7 75 When does a man in any sense, not by the laws of the realm, but by those of logic, become a cretin or cretinoid? 1895 Trans. Sixteenth Ann. Meeting Amer. Laryngol. Assoc. 142 As for the conditions described by European writers as those of semi-cretins and cretinoids, I believe they are numerous. 1904 M. W. Barr Mental Defectives viii. 201 The isolated examples of cretinism that are now found in this country and England can hardly be called true cretinism. These are, therefore better classified as demi-cretins, or cretinoids. 2010 Best Pract. & Res. Clin. Endocrinol. & Metabolism 24 47 Terms such as ‘sub-cretin’ and ‘cretinoid’ are used to describe these subjects. B. adj. Resembling or characteristic of cretinism or of a person affected by this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [adjective] > type of idiot born1791 cretinous1793 cretinoid1862 Mongolian1866 Mongol1876 amaurotic1896 Mongoloid1899 moronic1910 infantilistic1930 1862 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 29 502 It appeared to me of interest to ascertain whether bronchocele prevails in any part of Scotland, and if so, whether the form of idiocy in that district presents any of the cretinoïd characters. 1874 W. W. Gull in Trans. Clin. Soc. 7 180 (title) On a cretinoid state supervening in adult life in women. 1908 W. A. N. Dorland Age of Mental Virility ii. 36 Nasal abbreviation is one of the well-known signs of degeneracy, as is also..the sugar-loaf skull, the close-set eyes, and other physiognomic irregularities, including the cretinoid face. 1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings (1995) xxv. 193 You succeeded in producing a chronic myxoedema, a cretinoid state, with the tissue-changes, physical and mental hebetude, memory loss, the alteration in excretions, temperature, and voice. 2008 Internat. Jrnl. Developmental Neurosci. 26 165/2 These results suggest generally longer periods of plasticity of the brain and better prospects from neonatal cretinoid retardation than commonly believed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1861
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