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Thyroid vs Theroid - What's the difference?

thyroid | theroid |

As nouns the difference between thyroid and theroid

is that thyroid is (anatomy) the thyroid gland while theroid is .

As an adjective theroid is

bestial, resembling an animal.

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

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    theroid

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Compare Theropoda.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bestial, resembling an animal.
  • * 1871 , Henry Maudsley, Body and Mind , page 46,
    • There is a class of idiots which may justly be designated theroid , so like brutes are the members of it.
  • * 1877 , William Wotherspoon Ireland, On Idiocy and Imbecility , page 349,
    • Some imbecile children, without being so markedly theroid as this, are incorrigibly mischievous, and often show a surprising amount of cunning in carrying out what they design.
  • * 1912 , Aleš Hrdli?ka, William Henry Holmes, Bailey Willis, Frederic Eugene Wright, Clarence Norman Fenner, Early Man in South America , U.S. Government Printing Office, page 2,
    • Man can not have arisen except from some more theroid form zoologically, and hence also morphologically.
  • * 1994 , Chantal Zabus, Prospero?s Progeny Curses Back: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Postpatriarchal Rewritings of The Tempest'', Theo D?Haen, Hans Bertens (editors),''Liminal Postmodernisms: The Postmodern, the (post-)Colonial, and the (post-)Feminist , page 119,
    • Whatever Caliban?s ancestry may be, it remains that the West Indian Caliban is a poet whose poetic topography covers the whole of the Caribbean “trough” but whose harrowing experience of exile has turned him into a theroid monster.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1765 , The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman?s Monthly Intelligencer , Volume 34, page 77,
    • .