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thyroid
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  • She had thyroid problems, bad nerves and high blood pressure.†  (source)
  • Horace Whaley's eyes bulged—his thyroid gland was overactive—and swam, too, behind his spectacles.†  (source)
  • The president has long suffered from a condition known as autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 2 (APS-2), which has caused not only his hypothyroidism (insufficient thyroid hormone) but also his Addison's disease, which must be closely monitored at all times.†  (source)
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  • She has the alarmed, slightly pop-eyed look that signals either an overly nervous disposition or a disease of the thyroid.†  (source)
  • And, later on, other forms of cancer besides leukemia, with longer periods of latency, were showing up at higher than normal rates: carcinomas of the thyroid, the lungs, the breast, the salivary glands, the stomach, the liver, the urinary tract, and the male and female reproductive organs.†  (source)
  • The clinic has disfigurations, leukemias, thyroid cancers, immune systems that do not function.†  (source)
  • I asked, surprised at the anger in his thyroid eyes.†  (source)
  • He had finished the appendectomy, then two gastro-jejunostomies for peptic ulcer, three hernia repairs, one hydrocele, a subtotal thyroid resection, and a skin graft, but by his standards it had been tortuously slow.†  (source)
  • Nobody just knows stuff like the thyroid is located behind the breastbone.†  (source)
  • My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth.†  (source)
  • Stroking his chin, drawling in the ecstasy of being erudite, Kennicott inquired, "Say, doctor, what success have you had with thyroid for treatment of pains in the legs before child-birth?"†  (source)
  • But my mom knew more about differentiated thyroid carcinoma in adolescents than most oncologists.  (source)
    thyroid = gland located near the base of the neck
  • Not the thyroid.†  (source)
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