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cretin

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cretin
Medicine, dated a person afflicted with cretinism: a mentally retarded dwarf with wide-set eyes, a broad flat nose, and protruding tongue

cretin [′krēt·ənor′kret·ən]
(medicine)
An individual afflicted with cretinism.


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The cretin was the one variety of the human species with which the commandant had not yet come in contact.
 
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