different between thyroid vs theroid

English

Alternative forms

• thyreoid

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin thyreo?d?s, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (thureoeid?s, “shield-shaped”), from ?????? (thureós, “oblong shield”) +? -????? (-eid?s, “-form, -like”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.???d/
• Rhymes: -a????d

Adjective

thyroid (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Of, relating to, or being the thyroid cartilage.
2. (anatomy) Of, relating to, or being the thyroid gland.
   1. Suggestive of a disordered thyroid gland.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

thyroid (plural thyroids)

1. (anatomy) Ellipsis of thyroid cartilage.
2. (anatomy) Ellipsis of thyroid gland.
   1. (medicine) An extract prepared from the thyroid gland of animals and used in treating deficiency of thyroid hormones.

Derived terms

References

• “thyroid”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “thyroid”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

English

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ??? (th?r, “beast, fantastic animal”). Compare Theropoda.

Adjective

theroid (comparative more theroid, superlative most theroid)

1. Bestial, resembling an animal.
   • 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

Adjective

theroid (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of thyroid
   • 1765, The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman?s Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 34, page 77,

     […] a ?welling of the two theroid glands, lying on each ?ide of the wind-pipe, […] .

Anagrams

• orthide