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Enlargement of the thyroid due to under secretion of thyroxine.

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Hashimoto's disease is an autoimmune disease. It results in the under secretion of thyroxine hormone, hypothyroidism. The first sign of it includes enlargement of the thyroid gland called as goitre.

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