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Definition

gland located near the base of the neck that, amongst other things, regulates growth and metabolism

The thyroid is located in front of the neck, below the larynx (voice box).

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

thyroid = gland located near the base of the neck that, amongst other things, regulates growth and metabolism

But my mom knew more about differentiated thyroid carcinoma in adolescents than most oncologists.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

thyroid = gland located near the base of the neck

Thyroid with mets in my lungs.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

thyroid = gland located near the base of the neck

Thyroid originally but with an impressive and long-settled satellite colony in my lungs.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

thyroid = gland located near the base of the neck

The clinic has disfigurations, leukemias, thyroid cancers, immune systems that do not function.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Nobody just knows stuff like the thyroid is located behind the breastbone.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland
"Sir," I answered, dropping into my rack and kicking my shoes off onto the floor, "do you have a thyroid condition?
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Sweet sixteen and never been kissed is bad enough, but to be Thyroid Mary on top of it?
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
She has the alarmed, slightly pop-eyed look that signals either an overly nervous disposition or a disease of the thyroid.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
I asked, surprised at the anger in his thyroid eyes.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
She had thyroid problems, bad nerves and high blood pressure.
Luis J. Rodriguez -- Always Running
Horace Whaley's eyes bulged—his thyroid gland was overactive—and swam, too, behind his spectacles.
David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
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?"
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
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.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
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.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
Not the thyroid.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland

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