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Thyroid   /θˈaɪrɔɪd/   Listen
Thyroid

noun
1.
Located near the base of the neck.  Synonym: thyroid gland.



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"Thyroid" Quotes from Famous Books



... Leduc and his "fairy flowers," as now we have Loeb and others with their metabolites and hormones. As to these last, there seems to be no kind of doubt that the internal secretions of many organs and structures have effects which were, even a few years ago, quite unsuspected. Those of the thyroid ...
— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
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... have advanced theories to reduce corpulency and to improve slenderness; but they have been uniformly unreliable, and the whole subject of stature-development presents an almost unexplored field for investigation. Recently, Leichtenstein, observing in a case of myxedema treated with the thyroid gland that the subcutaneous fat disappeared with the continuance of the treatment, was led to adopt this treatment for obesity itself and reports striking results. The diet of the patient remained the same, and as the appetite was not diminished ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
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Words linked to "Thyroid" :   endocrine, ductless gland, endocrine gland


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