Article: Dr Miriam Stoppard's Health Focus: Getting it in the neck; Today: THE THYROID GLAND.(Features)

Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) test.(test to check working of ...
Clinical Reference Systems;  May 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... When your thyroid gland is underactive ... producing enough thyroid hormone, your body ... When your thyroid gland is overactive ... too much thyroid hormone, your body ... replacement thyroid hormone. * Your thyroid gland is infected ...

Article: Manipulation of the thyroid gland
Dynamic Chiropractic;  March 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... hypothyroidism is a thyroid hormone deficiency resulting ... function of the thyroid gland. I often lecture ... infections; and thyroid gland trauma.1 Among ... use exogenous thyroid hormone for life.9 ... may not need thyroid hormone therapy. That ... manipulation ...

Article: FOCUS@HEALTH: Hyper-functioning thyroid gland may ...
Filipino Reporter;  July 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the two lobes of the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland produces thyroid hormone. The two major physiologic ... essential ingredient in thyroid hormone synthesis. Deficiency can cause the thyroid gland to enlarge. In many ...

Dictionary definition: thyroid gland
A Dictionary of Nursing;      268 words ...thyroid gland n. a large endocrine gland ... are joined by an isthmus. The thyroid gland is concerned with regulation ... metabolic rate by the secretion of thyroid hormone. The C cells of the thyroid gland secrete calcitonin.

Article: Graves disease is an overactive thyroid gland
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.;  August 5, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... stimulate the thyroid gland. Antibodies usually ... antibodies prod the thyroid gland into overproduction of thyroid hormone. In huge quantities ... heads for the thyroid gland like iron goes ... person has to take thyroid hormone by mouth, but ...

Thyroxine (T4) test.(test to check the functioning of thyroid ...
Clinical Reference Systems;  May 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... show if your thyroid gland is producing ... too little thyroid hormone. If you ... Your thyroid gland is producing ... too much thyroid hormone replacement ... Your thyroid gland is not producing enough thyroid hormone, a condition ...

Article: GRAVES' DISEASE AFFECTS THYROID GLAND
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  January 4, 2000 ;     618 words ... ... A: When the thyroid gland over-produces thyroid hormone, certain predictable ... enlargement of the thyroid gland in the neck, warm ... destroys part of the thyroid gland) and surgery ... formation and output of thyroid hormone is almost always ...