How would the nurse explain the pathophysiologic etiology of cretinism to a client's family?
A) Lack of iodine replacement
B) Hypercalcemia from thyroid hyperplasia
C) Congenital hypofunction of the thyroid gland
D) Hypersecretion of the thyroid in the first six months of life
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