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Definition of Thyroxine
1. Noun. Hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells. "Thyroxine is 65% iodine"
Definition of Thyroxine
1. Noun. (hormone) A hormone (an iodine derivative of tyrosine), produced by the thyroid gland, that regulates cell metabolism and growth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thyroxine
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Medical Definition of Thyroxine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thyroxine
Literary usage of Thyroxine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"Kendall (1915) isolated the active principle, named it thyroxine and showed that
it produced the essential effects of desiccated thyroid. ..."
2. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Food and Drugs, Pt. 800-1299, Revised by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Staff (2005)
"A thyroxine-binding globulin test system is a device intended to measure
thyroxine (thyroid)- binding globulin (TBG), a plasma protein which binds thyroxine ..."
3. Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Report of the U. S. Preventive by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"End-organ responses to thyroxine therapy in subclinical hypothyroidism.
Clin Endocrinol 1985:22:83-89. 84. Arem R, Patsch W. Lipoprotein and apolipoprotein ..."
4. The Women's Health and Aging Study: Health and Social Characteristics of edited by Jack M. Guralnik, Linda P. Fried, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Judith D. Kasper, Mary E. Lafferty (1996)
"thyroxine, in turn, is the primary hormone produced by the thyroid gland, and
its measurement is important to detect overt thyroid dysfunction. ..."
5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Steiner, et al.,10 have recently studied the binding of thyroxine by HSA by the
method ... HSA has one binding site with very high affinity for thyroxine; ..."
6. Guide To Clinical Preventive Services by U. S. Preventive Services Task Force (1989)
"Free thyroxine estima- non for the screening of hyper- and hypothyroidism in an
adult population. Tohoku J Exp Med 1986; 148:411-20. 7. dos Remedios LV, ..."
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