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Thyroid

The thyroid, or thyroid gland, is an endocrine gland in vertebrates. In humans, it is a butterfly-shaped or H-shaped gland located in the neck below the Adam's apple. It consists of two connected lobes. The lower two thirds of the lobes are connected by a thin band of tissue called the isthmus (pl.: isthmi). Microscopically, the functional unit of the…

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Artery
Superior, inferior thyroid arteries
FMA
9603
Greek
θυρεοειδής
Latin
glandula thyreoidea
MeSH
D013961
Precursor
Thyroid diverticulum (an extension of endoderm into 2nd pharyngeal arch)

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Thyroid

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Edges317
Triples181
Avg. degree1.99
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related to Surgery · 18
Thyroid → Abbas, American, CE, Charles Mayo, Either Aetius, George Crile, Magusi, Medicine, Nobel Prize, Operations, Persian Ali, Physiology, Prussian, Swiss, Theodor Billroth, Theodor Kocher, These, William Halsted
related to Scientific era · 17
Thyroid → Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Andreas Vesalius, Bernard Courtois, David Marine, Eugen Baumann, French, Glandula, He, In, Latin, Leonardo, The, The English, Thomas Wharton, Vinci, Wharton
related to Antiquity · 16
Thyroid → Alps, Aristotle, BCE, China, Elder, Galen, Hippocrates, In, In Ayurvedic, Plato, Pliny, Shennong Ben Cao Jing, Sushruta Samhita, The, The Chinese, Xenophon
related to Thyroid hormones · 13
Thyroid → Appetite, Cardiovascular, Combined, Despite, Developmental, Increased, Metabolic, Sexual, T3, T4, The, These, They
related to Development · 11
Thyroid → At, By, During, Fetal, In, Over, T3, T4, The, TRH, TSH
related to Evaluation · 9
Thyroid → An, Examination, Further, Graves, If, In, It, Pemberton's, The
related to Hormone production · 9
Thyroid → DIT, I0, In, Iodide, Iodine, MIT, The, This, Thyroglobulin
related to Variation · 8
Thyroid → It, Lalouette's, Small, Sometimes, The, There, When, Zuckerkandl's
related to Gene and protein expression · 7
Thyroid → About, CALCA, CALCB, In, IYD, TPO, Two-hundred
related to Calcitonin · 6
Thyroid → Bone, Calcitonin, However, Parafollicular, PTH, The

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gland hormones iodine hypothyroidism may hormone goitre hyperthyroidism cause cells follicular also disease t3 neck calcitonin t4 tsh thyroiditis two

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ThyroidArterySuperior, inferior thyroid arteries1.00infobox
ThyroidFMA96031.00infobox
ThyroidGreekθυρεοειδής1.00infobox
ThyroidLatinglandula thyreoidea1.00infobox
ThyroidMeSHD0139611.00infobox
ThyroidPrecursorThyroid diverticulum (an extension of endoderm into 2nd pharyngeal arch)1.00infobox
ThyroidPronunciation/ˈθaɪrɔɪd/1.00infobox
ThyroidSystemEndocrine system1.00infobox
ThyroidTA238631.00infobox
ThyroidTA98A11.3.00.0011.00infobox
ThyroidVeinSuperior, middle, inferior thyroid veins1.00infobox
Thyroidis aproduction of the iodine-containing thyroid hormones0.90text
Thyroidis abenign adenoma0.90text

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