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Definition of Thymic

1. a. Of or pertaining to the thymus gland.

2. a. Pertaining to, or derived from, thyme; as, thymic acid.

Definition of Thymic

1. Adjective. of, or relating to the herb thyme ¹

2. Adjective. of, or relating to the thymus gland ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thymic

1. pertaining to thyme [adj] - See also: thyme

Medical Definition of Thymic

1. Of or pertaining to the thymus gland. Pertaining to, or derived from, thyme; as, thymic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thymic

Literary usage of Thymic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"Treatment of thymic Hyperplasia Complicating Graves's Disease. — From what has been stated, it follows that thymic hyperplasia in goiter surgery can no ..."

2. Surgical diseases of children: A Modern Treatise on Pediatric Surgery by Samuel Walter Kelley (1914)
"thymic ASTHMA; thymic ... THYMECTOMY thymic asthma(37) has been alluded to in the section on Lymph- ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1869)
"thymic acid possesses the important property of combining with skins and animal ... thymic acid is extracted from oil of thyme, in which it existe in ..."

4. Surgical Diseases of Children: A Modern Treatise on Pediatric Surgery by Samuel Walter Kelley (1909)
"thymic ASTHMA; thymic ... in at least one case in the living patient, the purely mechanical nature of thymic asthma, proving what ..."

5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The thymic lymphatic vessels arise from the under surface of the thymus gland, and enter the superior mediastinal glands, from which they emerge as two ..."

6. Endocrine Glands and the Sympathetic System by Pierre Lereboullet (1922)
"It seems as if there was a balance between the thymus and the genital organs and that the thymic involution begins at puberty at the time when the genital ..."

7. Pathological Physiology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"thymic Asthma and thymic Death The chief clinical interest in the thymus gland centers about the fact that sudden deaths, particularly in infants., ..."

8. Practical treatise on the diseases of children and infants at the breast by Eugène Bouchut (1855)
"This thymic • / asthma is only a spasm of the glottis and of the diaphragm, which '•;-1,'-1' has been previously described in the section on diseases of the ..."

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