myxedema

• myxoedema, myxœdema

From myxo- +‎ edema.

• Rhymes: -iːmə

myxedema (countable and uncountable, plural myxedemas)

1. (pathology) A form of cutaneous and dermal edema that is secondary to increased deposition of connective tissue components in subcutaneous tissue. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 542:

     The obvious inference was that myxoedema, goitre and cretinism were due to thyroid failure.

• myxedematous
• myxedemic