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Definition of Thyrotoxicosis

1. Noun. An overactive thyroid gland; pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones or the condition resulting from excessive production of thyroid hormones.

Definition of Thyrotoxicosis

1. Noun. (medicine) The medical condition caused by the state of raised levels of thyroid hormone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thyrotoxicosis

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Medical Definition of Thyrotoxicosis

1. The condition resulting from presentation to the tissues of excessive quantities of the thyroid hormones, whether the excess results from overproduction by the thyroid gland (as in Graves disease), originated outside the thyroid or is due to loss of storage function and leakage from the gland. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Thyrotoxicosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"thyrotoxicosis IN PREGNANCY. THAT a woman afflicted with Graves's disease may become pregnant, or that thyrotoxicosis may develop either during or at least ..."

2. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1918)
"Mayo calls it hyperthyroidism, Kocher calls it thyrotoxicosis. Following Kocher, I have adopted the latter denomination. My discussion, however, will have ..."

3. Human Radiation Experiments: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"This significant excess of thyrotoxicosis according to the authors may be ... The increased incidence of thyrotoxicosis in the exposed population may have ..."

4. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1920)
"THE X-RAY TREATMENT OF thyrotoxicosis. The value of the z-ray in the treatment of ... In typical thyrotoxicosis the pulse usually follows the metabolism. ..."

5. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"In this connection it is of interest that in the adenomatous type of thyrotoxicosis to which we have referred, not only is exophthalmos absent, ..."

6. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1917)
"The patient, a female forty-four years of age, had had thyroid enlargement for thirty-two years, with symptoms of thyrotoxicosis, beginning five years ago ..."

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