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What is a goitre?

What is a goitre? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland.
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Penrod looked in the window and was rewarded by a fine view of Queenie's goitre.
Since the 1920s, the prevalence of goitre has decreased as iodised table salt became widely used.
Of course, many people have goitre who are not cretins, but there is no cretin who has not goitre.
I had a little goitre too, a thickened neck, and I couldn't look at myself.
A pulsating aorta may mean neurasthenia, thinness, anemia, exophthalmic goitre, aortic insufficiency, aneurism, dilatation, or tumor.
The protrusion of the eyeballs proptosis in exophthalmic goitre is caused by the collection of fluid in the orbital fatty tissue.

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