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THYROID HORMONE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does thyroid hormone mean?

• THYROID HORMONE (noun)
The noun THYROID HORMONE has 1 sense:

1. any of several closely related compounds that are produced by the thyroid gland and are active metabolically

Familiarity information: THYROID HORMONE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• THYROID HORMONE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of several closely related compounds that are produced by the thyroid gland and are active metabolically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("thyroid hormone" is a kind of...):

endocrine; hormone; internal secretion (the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thyroid hormone"):

calcitonin; thyrocalcitonin (thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone)

T; tetraiodothyronine; thyroxin; thyroxine (hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells)

liothyronine; T; triiodothyronine (thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer)

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