GRAVES

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• GRAVES (noun)
  The noun GRAVES has 1 sense:

1. English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)

  Familiarity information: GRAVES used as a noun is very rare.

• GRAVES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Graves; Robert Graves; Robert Ranke Graves

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 Context examples 

Causes include diffuse hyperplasia of the thyroid gland (Graves' disease), single nodule in the thyroid gland, and thyroiditis.

(Hyperthyroidism, NCI Thesaurus)

One more so small child was missing, and we find it, thank God, unharmed amongst the graves.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"To-morrow I will put up head-boards with their names," Hans said, when the graves were filled in.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And yet it is said the Rochesters have been rather a violent than a quiet race in their time: perhaps, though, that is the reason they rest tranquilly in their graves now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Also called: Graves' Disease, Basedow's Disease, Overactive Thyroid

(Hyperthyroidism, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

I entered it and approached the tomb which marked their graves.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I look back on my life, child, said my aunt, and I think of some who are in their graves, with whom I might have been on kinder terms.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The classification of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) includes Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) or chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and its variants, Graves' disease (GD) and autoimmune atrophic thyroiditis or primary myxedema.

(Autoimmune Thyroid Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The new findings are from a long-term follow-up study of a large cohort of people with hyperthyroidism (mainly Graves’ disease) who were treated with radiation between 1946 and 1964, the Cooperative Thyrotoxicosis Therapy Follow-up Study.

(Long-term increased risk of cancer death following common treatment for hyperthyroidism, National Institutes of Health)

Variant alleles generated from mutations in the gene, have been associated with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, Graves disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis, celiac disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, thyroid-associated orbitopathy, and other autoimmune diseases.

(CTLA4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)