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deaf-mutism

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deaf-mutism
Etymology: AS, deaf + L, mutus
a state of being both unable to hear and unable to speak.


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Neurologic cretinism is thought to be caused by severe IDD with hypothyroidism in the mother during pregnancy and is characterized by mental retardation, abnormal gait, and deaf-mutism but not by goiter or hypothyroidism in the child.
 
 
 
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