Usually means: Gland producing hormones regulating metabolism.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word thyroid:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. thyroid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. thyroid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thyroid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thyroid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thyroid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thyroid, thyroid: Wordnik
  7. thyroid (gland): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. thyroid: Wiktionary
  9. thyroid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thyroid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thyroid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thyroid: Dictionary.com
  13. thyroid (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. thyroid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Thyroid (journal), Thyroid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Thyroid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. thyroid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. thyroid: Rhymezone
  19. Thyroid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. thyroid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. thyroid: Free Dictionary
  22. thyroid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. thyroid: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. -thyroid, thyroid-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Thyroid: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thyroid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Thyroid: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. thyroid: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Glossary
  5. Thyroid: Diabetes Dictionary
  6. thyroid: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
  7. Thyroid: Diabetes
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  10. thyroid: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. thyroid: Medical dictionary
  12. Thyroid: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thyroid: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See thyroids as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (anatomy) Of, relating to, or being the thyroid cartilage.
adjective:  (anatomy) Of, relating to, or being the thyroid gland.
adjective:  Suggestive of a disordered thyroid gland.
noun:  (medicine) An extract prepared from the thyroid gland of animals and used in treating deficiency of thyroid hormones.
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of thyroid cartilage. [(anatomy) The largest cartilage in the larynx; the Adam’s apple]
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of thyroid gland. [(anatomy) A large butterfly-shaped endocrine gland situated on the front of the neck that produces various hormones.]

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