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Definition of Parathyroids
1. parathyroid [n] - See also: parathyroid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parathyroids
Literary usage of Parathyroids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"The internal parathyroids were not seen. (Xote made at operation: Right recurrent
laryngeal ... The external parathyroids were very close to the thyroid. ..."
2. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"parathyroids. The parathyroids contain no iodine, and it is doubtful if they form
an internal secretion. If they do not, their function must be to ..."
3. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1918)
"In animals, especially in dogs and cats, the parathyroids are internal, namely,
... In man the parathyroids are external; they are nearly always located ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"IN the year 1880, the Swedish anatomist, Sandstrom, first described the parathyroids
in man and also in the horse, cattle, cat, dog, and rabbit. ..."
5. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1917)
"parathyroids These small glands were often excised with the thyroid, ...
Desiccated parathyroid gland consists of the dried external parathyroids ..."
6. A Text-book of Physiology by Isaac Ott (1909)
"In man the internal or superior parathyroids are located on the posterior Fig.
... There are four parathyroids in man, two on each side of the median line. ..."
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