Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as goiter.

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  • noun (Med.) See goiter.

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  • noun medicine goitre

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek windpipe + tumour.

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Examples

  • Thick neck, or goitre, also sometimes called bronchocele, consists of an enlargement of the thyroid gland, which lies over and on each side of the trachea, or windpipe, between the prominence known as "Adam's apple" and the breast bone.

    The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

  • The characteristics of this form of idiocy are an enlarged thyroid gland constituting a goitre or bronchocele, a high-arched palate, dwarfed stature, squinting eyes, sallow complexion, small legs, conical head, large mouth, and indistinct speech.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

  • Furthermore, they prepare a sea-pod essence for applying on a wet compress beneath waterproof tissue to strumous tumours, goitre, and bronchocele; also for old strains and bruises.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • The names goiter, struma, and bronchocele are applied indiscriminately to all tumors of the thyroid gland; there are, however, several distinct varieties among them that are true adenoma, which, therefore, deserves a place here.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The names goiter, struma, and bronchocele are applied indiscriminately to all tumors of the thyroid gland; there are, however, several distinct varieties among them that are true adenoma, which, therefore, deserves a place here.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • The spaniel and pug (p. 182) are most liable to bronchocele.

    The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

  • These facts are curious inasmuch as they militate against the generally received opinion that the disease is caused by drinking snow-water; an opinion which seems to have originated from bronchocele being endemial to subalpine districts.

    The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816

  • One case I saw, and one I was well informed of, where the bronchocele was cured by burnt sponge, and a hectic fever supervened with colliquative sweats; but I do not know the final event of either of them.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • Of this kind are the schirrous glands of the breasts, of the lungs, of the mesentery, and the scrophulous tumours about the neck and the bronchocele.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • Some empirics have applied caustics on the bronchocele, and sometimes, I have been told, with success; which should certainly be used where there is danger of suffocation from the bulk of it.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

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