thyreoid

The operation -- _thyreoidectomy_ -- consists in excising that portion of the thyreoid which is causing pressure symptoms, and this usually involves removal of one-half of the gland.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

# -- The thyreoid varies greatly in size even within normal limits, and may become engorged and swollen from physiological causes, particularly in the female.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

In others toxic effects, in the form of cardiac, nervous, muscular, and general metabolic disturbances, predominate, and are due to absorption of excessive or abnormal thyreoid secretion.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

The sterno-hyoids and sterno-thyreoids are separated; the cross branch between the anterior jugular veins, and any other veins met with, secured with forceps before being divided; and the trachea exposed by dividing transversely the layer of deep fascia which passes from the cricoid to the isthmus of the thyreoid.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

Isolated nodules of thyreoid tissue -- _accessory thyreoids_ -- are sometimes met with in different parts of the neck; they are liable to the same diseases as the main gland.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

Primary carcinoma may also occur in a supernumerary thyreoid, and in the para-thyreoid glands.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

Marked temporary benefit has followed the administration of thyreoid extract.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

In the early stages the thyreoid is enlarged and pulsatile, and bruits may be heard over it; later, these vascular symptoms disappear, and only a firm, diffuse, uniform swelling implicating all parts of the gland remains.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

This thyreoid toxæmia varies in degree; in the milder cases it merely amounts to a nervousness or excitability that may unfit the patient for occupation; it reaches its maximum in the condition of hyperthyreoidism characteristic of exophthalmic goitre or Graves 'disease (p. 614).

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

_ -- The thyreo-glossal _cyst_ is developed in relation to the thyreo-glossal tract of His, which in early embryonic life extends from the foramen cæcum at the base of the tongue to the isthmus of the thyreoid.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893