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  1. Thyroid-deficiency disease developing in
  2. adult life, most commonly in middle-aged
  3. women. The symptoms are loss of energy and
  4. appetite, inability to keep warm, mental
  5. dullness, and dry, puffy skin. It is
  6. completely reversed by giving the thyroid
  7. hormone known as thyroxine.
  8.