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Noun

• hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells
  • thyroxine is 65% iodine
    

• thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer

• the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet

• a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms

• one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose)

• a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  thyroxine , thyroxin , tetraiodothyronine , T , triiodothyronine , liothyronine , metric ton , MT , tonne , deoxythymidine monophosphate , thymine