Sentences with phrase «subnormal thyroid»

The investigators wrote that their results suggest that patients with microsomal thyroid anti-bodies may have symptoms due to subnormal thyroid hormone regulation of cell function before thyroid gland dysfunction is detectable by tests of thyroid hormone and TSH levels.

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Many researchers and clinicians consider the term «thyroid disease» to include only pathological processes that occur 1) within the thyroid gland itself, or 2) in other tissues, such as the pituitary gland, and indirectly result in subnormal function of the thyroid gland.

In those animals with an equivocal change in basal hormone level, the responses to challenge by exogenous thyrotropin or adrenocorticotropin are subnormal, owing to the hypoplasia or atrophy of the thyroid gland and adrenal cortex.