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Definition of Thyroxin
1. Noun. Hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells. "Thyroxine is 65% iodine"
Definition of Thyroxin
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of thyroxine) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thyroxin
1. an amino acid [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thyroxin
Literary usage of Thyroxin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1922)
"SOME PHYSIOLOGIC AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF thyroxin* EDWARD C. KENDALL The
observation made by Plummer, that there is a quantitative relationship between ..."
2. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"thyroxin. — Kendall, in 1914, was the first to isolate from the thyroid a crystalline
... This substance has been called "thyroxin" and has been shown to be ..."
3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1920)
"If the organic nucleus is the essential part of the thyroxin molecule, definite
chemical reactions can and must be ascribed to thyroxin in order to explain ..."
4. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1920)
"While the investigation concerning the physiologic action of thyroxin is not ...
Further investigation has confirmed the delay in the action of thyroxin in ..."
5. The Principles of Therapeutics by Oliver Thomas Osborne (1921)
"If a large dose of thyroxin is several times repeated, the excretion by the bile
and by the urine, and the storing by the thyroid may be so disturbed that ..."
6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1920)
"Osterberg succeeded in synthesizing thyroxin with its 60 per cent, ... It is
important to note, however, that in the isolation of thyroxin considerable ..."
7. The Glands Regulating Personality: A Study of the Glands of Internal by Louis Berman (1921)
"thyroxin, Secretion of the Thyroid Under the microscope, as in the test tube,
... Kendall at first called it the a-iodine compound, then named it thyroxin. ..."
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