infantilism

(in-fan'til-izm) [L. in fan til is, infantile.] A state marked by extremely slow development of mind and body, anangioplas'tic i.,' a type of idiopathic supposedly due to defective development of the general vascular system, cachec'tic i., a form of i., due apparently to chronic infection (malaria, tuberculosis, etc.), autointoxication, or chronic drug poisoning, dysthyroi'dal i., i. defective secretion of the thyroid gland, hepat'ic i., a form a ociated with cirrhosis of the liver. idiopathic i., a type of arrested physical development of indefinite causation, regarded by some as synonymous with an an gio plastic i. intes'tinal i., Herter type of a form a ociated with chronic intestinal trouble and po ibly due to autointoxication; the bodily development is arrested with slight mental retardation, the abdomen is distended, there are frequent attacks of diarrhea, and fatigue, both bodily and mental, is induced by slight exertion, lymph at'ic i., Paltauf's nanism, a form a ociated with lymph at ism. mjrxedem'- atous i., Bri aud type of i., infantile myxedema, cretinism, pancreat'ic i., a form a ociated with deficiency or absence of the pancreatic secretion. par'tial i., arrested development affecting a special ti ue or organ, such as cryptorchism, a patent foramen ovale, etc. symptom at'ic i., symptomatic nanism.* toxe'niic i., intestinal i. univer's al i., Lorain type of i., a form in which the stature is dwarfed, but all the parts are correctly proportioned, and the physical development is otherwise