diving goiter

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• diving goiter — a movable goiter located sometimes above and sometimes below the sternal notch. Called also plunging g. and wandering g …   Medical dictionary

• goiter — A chronic enlargement of the thyroid gland, not due to a neoplasm, occurring endemically in certain localities, especially regions where glaciation occurred and the soil is low in iodine, and sporadically elsewhere. SYN: struma (1). [Fr. from L.… …   Medical dictionary

• plunging goiter — diving g …   Medical dictionary

• wandering goiter — diving g …   Medical dictionary

• Windsurfing — A windsurfer tilts the rig and carves the board to perform a planing jibe (downwind turn) close to shore at Maui, Hawaii …   Wikipedia