| goggle | 1. A screen cover for the eye. 2. A type of spectacle with auxiliary shields for protecting the eyes. Origin: M.E. Gogelen, to squint Plethysmographic goggle, a specially designed goggle to serve as an ophthalmodynamometer while permitting subjective visual and objective ocular changes during transient increased intraocular pressure. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| goggle-eye | <zoology> One of two or more species of American fresh water fishes of the family Centrarchidae, especially. Chaenobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; so called from their prominent eyes. The goggler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| goggler | <zoology> A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes. Synonym: goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| going | 1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad. 2. Departure. 3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. 4. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways. "His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings." (Job xxxiv. 21) Going barrel. A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train. A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up. Going forth. The utmost extremity or limit. "The border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea." . Departure or journeying. "And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys." . Goings on, behavior; actions; conduct; usually in a bad sense. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| goiter | Enlargement of the thyroid gland. A goiter is not cancerous. A goiter can be associated with normal, elevated (hyperthyroidism) or decreased (hypothyroidism) thyroid hormone levels in the blood. (12 Dec 1998) |
| goiter, diffuse toxic | Graves' disease, the most common cause of hyperthroidism, too much thyroid hormone. (12 Dec 1998) |
| goiter, endemic | Enlargement of the thyroid gland in a significantly large fraction of a population group, generally considered to be due to insufficient iodine in the diet. (12 Dec 1998) |
| goiter, iodide | Just as too little iodine can cause thyroid disease, so may prolonged intake of too much iodine also lead to the development of goiter (swelling of the thyroid gland) and hypothyroidism (abnormally low thyroid activity). Certain foods and medications contain large amounts of iodine. Examples include seaweed; iodine-rich expectorants (such as SSKI and Lugol's solution) used in the treatment of cough, asthma, chronic pulmonary disease; and amiodarone (Cardorone), an iodine-rich medication used in the control of abnormal heart rhythms (cardiac arrhythmias). (12 Dec 1998) |
| goiter, nodular | An enlarged thyroid gland containing circumscribed nodules within its substance. (12 Dec 1998) |
| goiter, substernal | An enlarged thyroid gland where the enlarged gland is situated beneath the sternum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| goiter, toxic multinodular | Condition in which the thyroid gland contains multiple lumps (nodules) that are overactive and produce excess thyroid hormones. This condition is also known as Parry's disease or Plummer's disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| goitre | <clinical sign, endocrinology> An enlargement of the thyroid gland that is usually visible as a swelling in the anterior portion of the neck. Simple goitre occurs when the thyroid gland is unable to meet the demands of the body (for example iodine deficiency). The thyroid gland compensates by enlarging. Some foods such as cabbage, soybeans, peanuts, peaches, radishes and spinach contain substances that decrease thyroid production. Some medications such as lithium, cobalt and phenylbutazone can also decrease thyroid hormone production. (10 Oct 1997) |
| goitrogen | Any substance that induces goiter, e.g., cabbage, rapeseed, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| goitrogenic | Causing goiter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| goitrous | Denoting or characteristic of a goiter. (05 Mar 2000) |