Definitions

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  • adjective Reducing the production or effects of thyroid hormones.

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  • adjective having the effect of counteracting excessive thyroid activity

Etymologies

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Coined in 1908 from anti- + thyroid.

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Examples

  • I have antithyroid antibodies and show a lot of symptoms but my blood levels of whatever it is show as okay.

    I have a corset, red panties & pose threat to population...also have a GP and the H word (maybe). Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • If you have antithyroid antibodies, I'd highly suggest looking into Dr. Beer's work.

    Worrisome rise in underweight babies GreenFertility 2008

  • Controversially, Winfrey suggested that she had chosen diet and stress reduction as her thyroid treatment approach, and emphasized that her dietary regimen relied heavily on soy products, antithyroid goitrogens which are known to aggravate and worsen thyroid conditions in some people.

    Oprah’s plight | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

  • The farmers then tried an antithyroid drug, which made the livestock fat with less food but was found to be a cancer-causing agent.

    The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007

  • By the late 1940s, farmers noticed that the same antithyroid effect could be achieved by simply feeding animals soybeans and corn.

    The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007

  • The farmers then tried an antithyroid drug, which made the livestock fat with less food but was found to be a cancer-causing agent.

    The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007

  • By the late 1940s, farmers noticed that the same antithyroid effect could be achieved by simply feeding animals soybeans and corn.

    The Fiber35 Diet Brenda Watson with Leonard Smith 2007

  • Too little can cause a goiterlike condition known as hypothyroidism and too much can also have an antithyroid, or toxic, effect on hormone production.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • Too little can cause a goiterlike condition known as hypothyroidism and too much can also have an antithyroid, or toxic, effect on hormone production.

    The Last Chance Dog D.V.M. Donna Kelleher 2003

  • Because of the antithyroid effect of lithium, about 3% of patients receiving long-term maintenance lithium treatment develop nontoxic goiters that shrink with discontinuation of lithium or the addition of small doses of thyroid.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

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