thyroids
- plural of thyroid.
Example Sentences
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With a million better things to do, we race the beagle to the vet, who mutters a bunch of things about thyroids and further tests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2018
Government scientists, drawing on data from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, used to visit schools to check thyroids and radioactivity levels, recalled Peterson, another advocate.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2015
Yet when Japanese scientists and inspected the bodies of 38,000 children living in the Fukushima Prefecture, they found 36 percent had abnormal growths on their thyroids a year after the accident.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2013
Cats with overactive thyroids – which can lead to weight loss, increased appetite, hyperactivity and death – had higher blood levels of the chemicals, according to one small study led by Environmental Protection Agency scientists.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 25, 2012
Of course, the radioactive strontium they ate was concentrated in their bones, and the radioactive iodine was concentrated in their thyroids.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
