Goiter

Definition: Goiter

Goiter

Noun

1. 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 "goiter" was first used: 1625. (references)

Etymology: Goiter \Goi"ter\ Goitre \Goi"tre\, noun. [French go[^i]tre, Latin guttur throat, compare to tumidum guttur goiter, gutturosus goitered. See Guttural.]. (references)

Health

Synonyms: Goiter

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Crosswords: Goiter

Books

• Endemic goiter and endemic cretinism : iodine nutrition in health and disease (reference)

• Total diet survey in goiter endemic areas in Indonesia (reference)

• Towards the Eradication of Endemic Goiter, Cretinism and Iodine Deficiency (Scientific Pub No 502) (reference)

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Grade II Goiter from iodine deficiency. Credit: CDC.

Health

Some pituitary tumors can disrupt the function of the thyroid gland by secreting thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). This in turn enlarges the thyroid, causing a visibly large lump in the neck known as a goiter. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Nutritional deficiency ailments, such as goiter (from a lack of iodine), night blindness (from a lack of Vitamin A), and rickets are said to be relatively common among children in some areas. (references)

Expression using "goiter": exophthalmic goiter. Additional references.

Chinese 

癭 (knob on tree), 甲状腺 (goitre, thyroid). (various references)

Danish

Graves'sygdom (exophthalmic goiter), thyreoideaadenom (papillomatous goiter, thyroid adenoma), struma nodosa cystica (cystic goiter), struma colloides (adenoma gelatinosum, colloid goiter), struma (struma), skjoldbruskkirteladenom (papillomatous goiter, thyroid adenoma), kolloid struma (adenoma gelatinosum, colloid goiter), Basedow's sygdom (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), adenoma gelatinosum (adenoma gelatinosum, colloid goiter). (various references)

Dutch

thyreotoxicose (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), exophtalmie (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), kysteuze krop (cystic goiter), morbus Basedow (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), morbus basedowi (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), struma colloïdes (adenoma gelatinosum, colloid goiter), struma colloides cystica (cystic goiter), adenoma gelatinosum (adenoma gelatinosum, colloid goiter), struma vasculosa (vascular goiter, vascular goitre), ziekte van Stokes (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), thyreotoxicosis (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), vorm van hyperthyreoidie,vnl.gekenmerkt door het syndroom van Basedow,warme vochtige huid,een fijne,snelle tremor,vermagering en een sterk verhoogd basaalmetabolisme (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), ziekte van Basedow (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), ziekte van Begbie (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), ziekte van Flajani (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), ziekte van Graves (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), ziekte van Parry (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), struma cystica (cystic goiter). (various references)

Finnish

struuma (goitre). (various references)

French

goitre vasculaire (vascular goiter), goitre kystique (cystic goiter), goitre exophtalmique (exophthalmic goiter), goitre colloïde (colloid goiter), goitre colloïdal (colloid goiter), maladie de Marsh (exophthalmic goiter), maladie de Graves (exophthalmic goiter), maladie de Flajani (exophthalmic goiter), maladie de Basedow (exophthalmic goiter), adénome thyroïdien (papillomatous goiter), adénome gélatineux (colloid goiter). (various references)

German

kropf (crop). (various references)

Greek 

κυστική βρογχοκήλη (cystic goiter), κολλοειδής βρογχοκήλη (adenoma gelatinosum, colloid goiter), σύνδρομο του Begbie (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), βρογχοκήλη (goitre), νόσος του Parry (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), νόσος του Marsh (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), νόσος του Graves (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), νόσος του Flajani (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis), νόσος του Basedow (Basedow's disease, exophthalmic goiter, Flajani's disease, Graves disease, Graves's disease, March's disease, Parry disease, Parry's disease, Stokes's disease, thyrotoxicosis). (various references)

Hungarian

golyva (goitre). (various references)

Indonesian

gondok, buhuk, bengok, beguk (mandible). (various references)

Italian

gozzo (crop, goitre). (various references)

Korean 

갑상선종 (goitre). (various references)

Pig Latin

oitergay.(various references)

Portuguese

papo (craw, goitre, maw, pappus), papeira (goitre), bócio (goitre). (various references)

Russian 

зоб (craw). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gušavost (goitre, graves' disease). (various references)

Spanish

coto (goitre, preserve, reserve, rubber), bocio (goitre). (various references)

Swedish

kolloidstruma (adenoma gelatinosum, colloid goiter). (various references)

Thai

โรคคอพอก (goitre). (various references)

Turkish

guatr (goitre, struma). (various references)

Ukrainian

зоб (goitre). (various references)

guttur. (various references)

goitron. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "goiter": goiters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Goiter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Geater, Geeter, Geister, Geitel, Gibtner, gifter, gitar, gitarr, gitter, gliter, gnitteg, goader, Goaler, goateer, Goater, Goettel, Goftar, goider, goier, goiler, gointuh, goither, goitre, goize, Goltzer, Goostrey, Gorter, goster, Gostner, Gotari, Goter, gotier, Gottberg, gotter, goute, gouter, Goyder, goyer, Goymer, goyter, guater, guier, guite, gutier, Guyther, Joiret, joiter, ogier. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: goitre.

-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.

+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.