Medical Definition of Thyrotoxic crisis

1. Thyroid crisis, the exacerbation of symptoms that occurs in severe thyrotoxicosis; can follow shock or injury or thyroidectomy; marked by rapid pulse (140 to 170 per minute), nausea, diarrhoea, fever, loss of weight, extreme nervousness, and a sudden rise in the metabolic rate; coma and death may occur; occasionally the entire clinical picture is that of profound prostration, weakness, and collapse, without the phase of muscular overactivity and tachycardia. Synonym: thyroid storm. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thyrotoxic Crisis

thyropharyngeal
thyropharyngeal part of inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle
thyroplasties
thyroplasty
thyroprival
thyroprivia
thyroprivic
thyroprotein
thyroptosis
thyrostatic
thyrotomies
thyrotomy
thyrotoxic
thyrotoxic coma
thyrotoxic complement-fixation factor
thyrotoxic crisis (current term)
thyrotoxic encephalopathy
thyrotoxic heart disease
thyrotoxic myopathy
thyrotoxic serum
thyrotoxicity
thyrotoxicoses
thyrotoxicosis
thyrotoxicotic
thyrotoxin
thyrotoxins
thyrotroph
thyrotrophic
thyrotrophic hormone
thyrotrophic releasing hormone

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