Word: thymuses
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...autopsy Assistant Medical Examiner Charles Herman Hochman reported that he had found malformation of the cerebellum (section of the brain controlling movement) as well as an undeveloped thyroid gland, and an enlarged thymus. The thymus gland is found only in young children, normally disappears at adolescence...
...thymus (sweetbread) is a gland located above the heart, at the root of the neck. Together with the pituitary it controls growth through infancy (1 to 6 years) and childhood (6 to 14 years). It normally disappears at puberty...
...dead. Scratches and bruises on her made police jump to the conclusion that jealous Noel had beaten her to death with his toy airplane. But the medical examiner, Dr. George W. Ruger, absolved the boy, certified that the infant's death was due to sudden enlargement of her thymus...
...baby with an enlarged thymus is usually fat and flabby. Because the thymus presses upon the windpipe, gullet, large blood vessels and nerves, a thymic baby when excited will develop harsh breathing, turn blue, hold his breath, go into convulsions. Immediate remedy is an oxygen tent. X-rays of the infant's chest will reveal any enlargement of the thymus. X-ray irradiations will reduce an enlarged thymus. The complexions of thymic children after irradiation never seem to grow old, always remain peaches & cream...
They extracted juices from the muscles, heart, lungs, brain, kidneys, spleen, liver, pancreas, stomach, thyroid, testes, pituitary, thymus, and adrenals of dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs, oxen, men & women. Unexpectedly, extract of the cortices of adrenal glands stimulated the bitterling precisely the way ovarian hormones did. None of the other tissue juices caused that effect...