cretinic
English
Etymology
cretin + -ic
Adjective
cretinic (comparative more cretinic, superlative most cretinic)
- (medicine, dated) Exhibiting or relating to cretinism.
- 1906, Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology (page 260)
- He recollected a gentleman in Admont who had a dog that gave birth to five young, three of which were cretinic, the other two feeble.
- 1944, United States. Office of War Information, Symposium on Recent Advances in Medicine (page 1403)
- Originally we did not consider this case as one of pituitary cretinism because the initial clinical appearance and findings and the response to thyroid therapy were typically cretinic.
- 1906, Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology (page 260)