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One child has thyroid disease and "queshee acor." - meredith

Posted: Oct 19, 2009

One child has thyroid disease and "queshee acor." (sounds like!!!) Tried searching diseases and still couldn't find... which is hard anyway since I don't know how to spell it... Sure sounded funny!!!

Could he be saying...sm - Babs

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Cushing's syndrome???

Kwashiorkor? - sm

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This is a form of malnutrition that occurs when there is not enough protein in the diet.

I'll bet that's it.. nm - Babs

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OMG!!! - Meredith

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That is amazing... how did you ever know that word!!! Brilliant!!! Is that an English word? Sounds foreign, doesn't it???

I had heard of it somewhere along the line, and - sm

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something about your phonetic spelling rang a bell for me. It is weird that you got it in a dictation though. It's one of those things I never expected to be of much use. Glad it helped!

p.s. According to Merriam's the etymology - sm

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is from the Kwa language of coastal Ghana, so you are right about it being a foreign word!

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