Definition for GOIT'ROUS

GOIT'ROUS, a. [Fr. goîtreux.]

  1. Pertaining to the goiter; partaking of the nature of bronchocele.
  2. Affected with bronchocele. Journ. of Science. Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either gaitrous or idiots. Coxe, Switz.

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