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THYROIDITIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflammation of the thyroid gland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("thyroiditis" is a kind of...):

inflammation; redness; rubor (a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat)

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 Context examples: 

Variant alleles generated from mutations in the gene, have been associated with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, Graves disease, Hashimoto thyroiditis, celiac disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, thyroid-associated orbitopathy, and other autoimmune diseases.

(CTLA4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The classification of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) includes Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) or chronic autoimmune thyroiditis and its variants, Graves' disease (GD) and autoimmune atrophic thyroiditis or primary myxedema.

(Autoimmune Thyroid Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)