Marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration.
Skin disease, marked by swelling and dryness, due to insufficient thyroid secretion.
Thyroid-deficiency disease developing in adult life, most commonly in middle-aged women. The symptoms are loss of energy and appetite, inability to keep warm, mental dullness, and dry, puffy skin. It is completely reversed by giving the thyroid hormone known as thyroxine.