thyrotoxic

[thahy-roh-tok-sik]

adjective

Pathology.

1. of or relating to a condition caused by excessive thyroid hormone in the system, usually resulting from overactivity of the thyroid gland.

Other Word Forms

• thyrotoxicity noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of thyrotoxic¹

First recorded in 1900–05; thyro- + toxic

Example Sentences

That patient turned out to have something Hassen had never heard of: thyrotoxic periodic paralysis, muscle weakness where the low potassium was being caused by an excess of thyroid hormone.

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As soon as he hit enter, page after page appeared, filled with articles on a disease known as thyrotoxic periodic paralysis.

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Current thinking is that some patients have inherited a predisposition to develop thyrotoxic periodic paralysis under the right set of circumstances.

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