As a result of the illness, she had part of her thyroid removed.

Potassium iodide blocks thyroid absorption of radioactive iodine, an early risk in a nuclear release.

Brown hyenas possess an anal gland below the base of the tail, which produces a black and white paste.

Each of these silk fibers exits from the spigot, and if you were to trace the fiber back into the spider, what you would find is that each spigot connects to its own individual silk gland. A silk gland kind of looks like a sac with a lot of silk proteins stuck inside.

Among these are thyroid hormones, which regulate the part of the brain involved in a variety of vital functions, including reproduction, sleep, thirst, eating and puberty.

Aside from thyroid cancer, which has been successfully treated in 98.5 of cases, scientists have not been able to document any connection between radiation and any physical condition.

Rich nations have all but eliminated goiter (swelling of the thyroid) by using iodized salt a preventive measure lacking in 30 of developing world households, but that costs just 0.05 a year per person.

During the first trimester of pregnancy, the fetus is not making its own thyroid hormone, says Thomas Zoeller, director of the Laboratory of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Endocrinology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

This young woman s reason for speaking out is to motivate the families of children who have not yet received the thyroid ultrasound examination to have their children tested, Ash says in his introduction to the interview.

Emil Theodor Kocher (25 August 1841 27 July 1917) was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid.