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ANTITHYROID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does antithyroid mean?
• ANTITHYROID (adjective)
The adjective ANTITHYROID has 1 sense:
1. having the effect of counteracting excessive thyroid activity
Familiarity information: ANTITHYROID used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the effect of counteracting excessive thyroid activity
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
antithyroid drugs
Pertainym:
thyroid (of or relating to the thyroid gland)
Context examples
A thioureylene antithyroid agent that inhibits the formation of thyroid hormones by interfering with the incorporation of iodine into tyrosyl residues of thyroglobulin.
(Methimazole, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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