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Definition: Goitre |
GoitreNoun1. Abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from under-production or over-production of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goitre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
"Goitre" is a common misspelling or typo for: goiter. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A goitre is a swelling in the neck due to an enlarged thyroid gland. The most common cause for goitre in the world is iodine deficiency.Iodine is necessary for the synthesis of the thyroid hormones, triiodothyronine and thyroxine (T3 and T4). When iodine is not available these hormones cannot be made. In response to low thyroid hormones, the pituitary gland releases thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH).
Thyroid stimulating hormone acts to try and increase synthesis of T3 and T4, but also causes the thyroid gland to grow in size as a type of compensation.
Goitre was previously common in many areas that were deficient in iodine in the soil. The condition now is practically absent in affluent nations, where table salt is supplemented with iodine.
There are fears by some health workers that a resurgence of goitre might occur because of the trend to use rock salt (which has not been fortified with iodine) and also less salt use in general.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Goitre."
Synonyms: GoitreSynonyms: goiter (n), struma (n), thyromegaly (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Goitre |
| Specialty definitions using "goitre": congenital goitre ♦ endemic goitre ♦ nodular goitre ♦ substernal goitre. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "goitre": Goiter. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Goitre" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (goitre). |
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| "Goitre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Goitre" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "goitre": congenital goitre ♦ diffuse goitre ♦ endemic goitre ♦ nodular goitre ♦ substernal goitre. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
goitre | 40 |
goitre multinodular | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "goitre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gushë (throat), shtrumë. (various references) | |
Arabic | الجوثر تضخم الغدة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гуша (craw, crop, dewlap, jowl, maw, throat). (various references) | |
Chinese | 甲状腺 (goiter, thyroid). (various references) | |
Czech | vole (craw, crop). (various references) | |
Danish | struma (struma). (various references) | |
Dutch | struma simplex (struma), struma (struma), kropgezwel (struma), krop (pate), ingluvies. (various references) | |
Finnish | struuma (goiter). (various references) | |
French | goitre. (various references) | |
German | Struma (struma), Kropf (goiter, crop), Blähhals (struma). (various references) | |
Greek | βρογχοκήλη (bronchocele). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זפק (crop). (various references) | |
Hungarian | golyva (goiter). (various references) | |
Italian | gozzo (crop). (various references) | |
Korean | 갑상선종 (goiter). (various references) | |
Manx | anglysh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oitregay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bócio (goiter). (various references) | |
Romanian | guşã (craw, crop, dewlap, Gill, jowl, maw). (various references) | |
Russian | струма, зоб (craw). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gušavost (goiter, graves' disease). (various references) | |
Spanish | coto (goiter, preserve, reserve, rubber), bocio (goiter). (various references) | |
Swedish | struma (struma). (various references) | |
Thai | โรคคอพอก (goiter). (various references) | |
Turkish | guatr (goiter, struma). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зоб (goiter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goitre": goitres. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: goiter. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ergot, griot, tiger, trigo. | |
-2 letters: ergo, giro, girt, goer, gore, grit, grot, ogre, riot, rite, rote, roti, tier, tire, tiro, tore, tori, trig, trio. | |
-3 letters: ego, erg, get, gie, git, gor, got, ire, ore, ort, reg, rei, ret, rig, roe, rot, teg, tie, toe, tog, tor. | |
-4 letters: er, et, go, it, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: ergotic, genitor, goiters, goitres, goriest, goutier, vertigo. | |
+2 letters: digestor, ergotism, genitors, gerontic, ghostier, gorsiest, grodiest, grottier, groutier, nitrogen, overgilt, overgirt, ravigote, regolith, revoting, stodgier, strigose, towering, vertigos. | |
+3 letters: aragonite, bigotries, bothering, categoric, corseting, dehorting, deporting, detouring, digestors, doughtier, enrooting, ergotisms, ergotized, erotizing, escorting, exhorting, exporting, extorting, foresight, foresting, forgetive, fostering, froggiest, geometric, geometrid, geotropic, ghostlier, goitrogen, groggiest, grooviest, grottiest, groutiest, growliest, growthier, hectoring, loitering, mentoring, morganite, mothering, nitrogens, obverting, operating, orangiest, orienting, originate, outfigure, outrigger, overlight, overnight, oversight, oystering, portering, pothering, pottering, progestin, pterygoid, ravigotes, rebooting, redingote, regoliths, reporting, repotting, rerouting, resorting, restoking, restoring, retooling, retorting, revolting, righteous, rocketing, roqueting, sectoring, sortieing, sortilege, stereoing, tightrope, tochering, toggeries, tottering, trialogue, trilogies, troweling, vectoring, vertigoes. | |
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