myxoedematousmyxedematousadj.
/ˌmɪksᵻˈdiːmətəs/, U.S. /ˌmɪksəˈdɛmədəs/ Medicine.
Of the nature of, relating to, or characteristic of myxoedema; suffering from or affected by myxoedema.
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myxoedematous1886
myxoedemic1896
thyrotoxic1904
1886 Proc. Royal Soc. 40 8 The animal lives through the mucinoid stage, i.e., myxœdematous condition, and arrives in the third stage—the atrophic.
1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Mar. 632/2 The myxœdematous and other undoubtedly metaplastic processes.
1914 Science 168/2 The child here shown is a thirteen-year-old idiotic myxedematous dwarf whose general symptoms point to a congenital absence of the thyroid gland.
1952 New Biol. 13 63 It has been mentioned above that myxoedematous individuals are unduly sensitive to cold.
1989 Q. Jrnl. Med. 72 711 On examination he was myxoedematous and had a large, stony hard and painful goitre.
2000 Clin. & Exper. Dermatol. 25 132 We describe a 54-year-old woman with diffuse myxoedematous infiltration at the site of a smallpox vaccination scar as the presenting symptom of Graves' disease.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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