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Thyroid vs Douglas - What's the difference?

thyroid | douglas |

As a noun thyroid

is (anatomy) the thyroid gland.

As a proper noun douglas is

.

thyroid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (anatomy) The thyroid gland.
  • * {{quote-web
  • , date = 2013-08-09 , author = Douglas Main , title = Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation , site = live science , url = http://www.livescience.com/38796-israel-outlaws-water-fluoridation.html , accessdate = 2013-09-30 }}
    Israel is one of the few countries that widely fluoridates, besides the United States, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. Fluoridation, the addition of fluoride to public drinking water supplies to reduce cavities, is the subject of intense controversy, especially outside of the United States. But opposition to the practice, on the grounds that fluoride has adverse effects on the thyroid , brain and bones, and is an unethical form of mass-medication, appears to be growing.
  • The thyroid cartilage.
  • (medicine) A preparation obtained from the thyroid gland.
  • Derived terms

    * antithyroidal * thyroidal * hyperthyroid * hyperthyroidism * hypothyroid * hypothyroidism * thyroid cartilage * thyroid gland * thyroidization

    douglas

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • transferred from the surname.
  • The capital of the Isle of Man.
  • A town in Alabama
  • A city in Arizona
  • A city in Georgia, USA
  • A town in Massachusetts
  • A city in Michigan
  • A village and a county in Nebraska
  • A community in New Brunswick, Canada
  • A city in North Dakota
  • A town in Oklahoma
  • A village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland
  • A town in Northern Cape, South Africa
  • A town in Wisconsin
  • A city in Wyoming
  • Quotations

    * : Act IV, Scene V: *: The noble Scot, Lord Douglas , when he saw *: The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him *: The noble Percy slain, and all his men *: Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest. * 1756 (John Home), Douglas: A Tragedy , Prologue *: Douglas , a name through all the world renown'd, *: A name that rouses like the trumpet's sound! * 1960 (Muriel Spark), The Ballad of Peckham Rye , New Directions Publishing, 1999, page 68-69 *: 'Just call me Dougal,' said Dougal. *: 'Douglas ,' she said, pronouncing it 'Dooglass'. *: 'No, Dougal - Douglas is my surname.' *: 'Oh, Dougal Douglas . Dougal's the first name.'