The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thyroid \Thy"roid\, a. [Gr. qyreoeidh`s shield-shaped; qyreo`s a large, oblong shield (from qy`ra a door) + e'i^dos form: cf. F. thyro["i]de, thyr['e]o["i]de.]
Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage.
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(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal.
Thyroid cartilage. See under Larynx.
Thyroid body, or Thyroid gland (Anat.), an endocrine gland having two lobes, located in the floor of the mouth or the region of the larynx, which secretes two hormones ( thyroxine and triiodothyronine) that regulate the rates of growth and metabloism. In man and most mammals it is a highly vascular organ, partly surrounding the base of the larynx and the upper part of the trachea. Cases of hypothyroidism, where the gland is insufficiently active, can be treated by administration of thyroxine or a combination of thyroxine and triiodothyronine.
Thyroid dislocation (Surg.), dislocation of the thigh bone into the thyroid foramen.
Thyroid foramen, the obturator foramen.
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) The largest cartilage in the larynx; the Adam's apple
WordNet
n. the largest cartilage of the larynx [syn: Adam's apple]
Wikipedia
The thyroid cartilage is the largest of the nine cartilages that make up the laryngeal skeleton, the cartilage structure in and around the trachea that contains the larynx. It does not completely encircle the larynx; only the cricoid cartilage does.
Usage examples of "thyroid cartilage".
But, on the other hand, he's been strangled--look at the ecchymosis on either side of the thyroid cartilage.
A round in there at this distance would plunge through skin and tissue, shatter the cervical vertebrae, punch out the thyroid cartilage, send the whole head spinning off sideways.
Face and neck congested and dark red, bruises on the arms and legs, contusions on the face, a fractured hyoid bone and torn thyroid cartilage.
His legs were buckling as the second man straightened up from dropping the bag into the boot and I used a knee against his sacral plexus hard enough to incapacitate and pulled him out of the way and slammed the boot shut and went to the side of the car and opened the driving door and worked on the chauffeur's thyroid cartilage, taking my time because he was surprised and hadn't even moved his hands and couldn't move them now because of the numbing effect of the squeeze.
The cricoid cartilage is completely separated from both the thyroid cartilage and the lamina.
He moved aside a tray of fractured ribs and thyroid cartilage that he must have been working on before I arrived.
My bet is that when we do the autopsy, we'll find fractures in the thyroid cartilage.
The younger man's truncheon, detumescent, pressed against the back of Denverdarian's neck, driving the thyroid cartilage into his throat.
His hand also pulped the thyroid cartilage and crushed the laryngeal branch of the vital vagus nerve.
She aimed at the fladgie's throat, feeling the thyroid cartilage crushed against her knuckles.
Kleist watched the bobbing of the man's hyoid bone, the thyroid cartilage of his larynx, the ligaments and tendons and soft fascia.
His hands moved the knife in a soft caress, just above the sternal notch and well below the thyroid cartilage.
Her neck, on either side of the thyroid cartilage, showed ugly dark bruises.
He was pulling back on the piano wire very hard, and if it had been brought across my throat it would have breached the skin and cut through the thyroid cartilage and the jugular vein and the carotid artery and he could have simply stepped back to avoid the blood and walked away, as I suppose he'd done so many times.
Halloran's stiffened fingers jabbed at the front of Daoud's neck, striking for the thyroid cartilage.