thyroid, hyperthyroidism, cartilage

Researchers hope this new study may help identify thyroid hormone levels as a possible screening tool for assessing risk of sudden cardiac death.


"When facial cartilage and bone is lost, from cancer or an accident, it has been difficult to replace. Our long term hope is that uncovering this gene circuit may be useful in reprogramming a patient's own stem cells to make facial cartilage."—Marianne Bronner, the Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology at Caltech


Dr. Jacob Robbins, whose studies of the thyroid gland at the National Institutes of Health helped explain how it helps govern metabolism and how thyroid cancers caused by radiation may be treated or possibly prevented, died on May 12 in Bethesda, Md. He was 85.



With another endocrinologist at the health institutes, Joseph E. Rall, Dr. Robbins embarked on a study of thyroxine, an important hormone produced by the thyroid that helps regulate metabolism. In the 1950s, the two researchers theorized that levels of thyroxine might vary in the bloodstream, but that the level of thyroxine actually in use would often be markedly lower. They found that thyroxine had to be “free,” or not bound to globulin and other plasma proteins, to be effective, whatever the overall thyroxine level in the bloodstream.

甲状腺機能亢進症

甲状腺機能亢進症の鑑別. ○甲状腺機能亢進症 甲状腺機能亢進症(hyperthyroidism)は、
甲状腺からのホルモン産生および分泌が持続的に亢進し、甲状腺中毒症状をきたす病態で
ある。血中甲状腺ホルモンが増加する甲状腺中毒症(thyrotoxicosis)の一部である。 ...

thyroid

1. The thyroid gland.
2. The thyroid cartilage.
3. A dried, powdered preparation of the thyroid gland of certain domestic animals, used in treatment of hypothyroid conditions.
4. An artery, a vein, a nerve, or another part associated with the thyroid gland or thyroid cartilage.

[Greek thureoeidēs : thureos, oblong shield (from thurā, door) + -oeidēs, -oid.]

thyroid thy'roid' adj.
thyroidal thy·roi'dal adj.


n. - 甲狀腺, 甲狀腺劑, 甲狀軟骨
idioms:

• thyroid gland 甲狀腺

thy・rox・in, thy・rox・ine

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━━ n. 【生化】チロキシン ((甲状腺ホルモンの一種)).

glob・u・lin

【生化】グロブリン ((単純蛋(たん)白質の一群)).

thy・roid

━━ n., a. 甲状腺［軟骨］（の）; 甲状腺乾燥製剤.
thyroid cartilage　甲状軟骨.
thyroid gland　【解】甲状腺.

cartilage 

Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːt(ɪ)lɪdʒ/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

1Firm, flexible connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It is morewidespread in the infant skeleton, being replaced by bone during growth.

Example sentences

1.1[COUNT NOUN] A particular structure made of cartilage:his knees failed and the cartilages were removed

cartilage 

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音節

 

car • ti • lage

 

発音

 

kɑ'ːrtəlidʒ

[名詞]

1. 1〔解剖〕 〔動物〕 軟骨.
2. 2〔解剖〕 〔動物〕 軟骨部，軟骨組織.