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Thyroid adj.

Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage.

(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal.

Thyroid cartilage. See under Larynx.

Thyroid body, or Thyroid gland (Anat.), an endocrine gland having two lobes, located in the floor of the mouth or the region of the larynx, which secretes two hormones (thyroxine and triiodothyronine) that regulate the rates of growth and metabloism. In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular organ, partly surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea. Cases of hypothyroidism, where the gland is insufficiently active, can be treated by administration of thyroxine or a combination of thyroxine and triiodothyronine.

Thyroid dislocation (Surg.), dislocation of the thigh bone into the thyroid foramen.

Thyroid foramen, the obturator foramen.

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... to practise on his accordion,—he had opened a dancing academy at Fa'a,—the octogenarian asked me if I had read of the recent achievements of the scientists who were making the old young. He elaborated on the discoveries and experiments of Professor Leonard Huxley in England with thyroid gland injections, of Voronoff in France with the grafting of interstitial glands of monkeys, and of Eugen Steinach in Austria and Roux in Germany, with germ glands and X-rays. Steinach, especially, he discoursed ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... from the weapon's "fallout"—the coral rock, soil, and other debris sucked up in the fireball and made intensively radioactive by the nuclear reaction. One radioactive isotope in the fallout, iodine-131, rapidly built up to serious concentration in the thyroid glands of the victims, particularly ...

— Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives • United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

... the boarding from Alice Paul's window yesterday, I heard. It is so delicious about Alice and me. Over in the jail a rumor began that I was considered insane and would be examined. Then came Doctor White, and said he had come to see 'the thyroid case.' When they left we argued about the matter, neither of us knowing which was ...

— Jailed for Freedom • Doris Stevens

Words linked to "Thyroid" : superior thyroid vein, ductless gland, thyroidal, middle thyroid vein, endocrine gland, inferior thyroid vein, thyroid hormone, thyroid cartilage, thyroid-stimulating hormone