thyroidin a sentence
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The thyroid is located in front of the neck, below the larynx (voice box).
thyroid = gland that amongst other things, regulates growth and metabolism
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I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen.
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thyroid = gland located near the base of the neck that, amongst other things, regulates growth and metabolism
- My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth.† (source)
- Horace Whaley's eyes bulged—his thyroid gland was overactive—and swam, too, behind his spectacles.† (source)
- She had thyroid problems, bad nerves and high blood pressure.† (source)
- She has the alarmed, slightly pop-eyed look that signals either an overly nervous disposition or a disease of the thyroid.† (source)
- Sweet sixteen and never been kissed is bad enough, but to be Thyroid Mary on top of it?† (source)
- Nobody just knows stuff like the thyroid is located behind the breastbone.† (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)
- 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)
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- "Sir," I answered, dropping into my rack and kicking my shoes off onto the floor, "do you have a thyroid condition?† (source)
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Thyroid originally but with an impressive and long-settled satellite colony in my lungs.
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thyroid = gland located near the base of the neck
- But my mom knew more about differentiated thyroid carcinoma in adolescents than most oncologists. (source)
- Thyroid with mets in my lungs. (source)
- Not 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)
- 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)
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