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noun
1.
A base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine.  Synonym: thymine.
2.
One of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose).  Synonym: deoxythymidine monophosphate.
3.
A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.  Synonyms: metric ton, MT, tonne.
4.
The 20th letter of the Roman alphabet.
5.
Thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer.  Synonyms: liothyronine, triiodothyronine.
6.
Hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells.  Synonyms: tetraiodothyronine, thyroxin, thyroxine.



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... Janet won't," she answered. "She has grown up with all those lovely old things and she is used to them. She has never seen anything like her new room and she will love it, I am sure. Just as you loved the dear old room we had at her house, only of course Janet won't go into such ecstasies ...
— Phyllis - A Twin • Dorothy Whitehill

... voice irascibly, continuing to write the while. "Where the devil are you! Can't you hear the ...
— The Yellow Claw • Sax Rohmer

... "That needn't prevent you considering this case, for the word bishop is here used—that is to say, I am using it—to mean any eminent ecclesiastic. All right, I'm dealing as fast as I can. Supposing that a man of that kind, call him a bishop or anything else ...
— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham

... are beautiful!" cried Janet, "all laid out in ribbon gardens and with the most beautiful terrace, and a fountain-only that doesn't play except when you give the gardener half-a-crown, and mamma says, that is exorbitant-and statues ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge

... "I don't think it was a stowaway, somehow," I said, chipping in. "What would a stowaway want aloft? I guess he'd be trying ...
— The Ghost Pirates • William Hope Hodgson


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