Crossword-Solution: THYMUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thymus | a. | Of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland. |
| Thymus | n. | The thymus gland. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “THYMUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A gland in the neck that produces white blood cells | 1 answer |
| GLAND present in early life till 10-12 years, and then slowly regresses | 1 answer |
| GLAND-like structure situated in upper thorax and neck | 1 answer |
| Gland at the base of the neck | 1 answer |
| Gland at the base of the neck that produces and "educates" T cells | 1 answer |
| Gland essential to T cell maturation | 1 answer |
| Gland of uncertain function | 1 answer |
| THORAX (upper) and neck, gland-like structure situated in the | 1 answer |
| THORAX and neck, gland-like structure situated in the | 1 answer |
| large genus of Old World mints: thyme | 1 answer |
| Lymphoid organ | 2 answers |
| NECK gland | 2 answers |
| Gland | 18 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEAZCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with THYMUS (5)
Anomalies of the Lungs.--Carper describes a fetus of thirty-seven weeks in whose thorax he found a very voluminous thymus gland but no lungs.
Linsmayer reported a case in which there was a softened adenoma in the pituitary body, and the thymus was absent.
These two questions are like those famous household puzzles,--Where do the flies come from? and, Where do the pins go to? There is a series of organs in the body which has long puzzled physiologists,--organs of glandular aspect, but having no ducts,--the spleen, the thyroid and thymus bodies, and the suprarenal capsules.
Such cases have been noticed by myself in Thymus serpyllum and vulgaris, Satureia hortensis, Origanum vulgare, and Mentha hirsuta; and by others in Nepeta glechoma, Mentha vulgaris and aquatica, and Prunella vulgaris.
The changes after birth consist chiefly in growth; but not altogether, since at least one organ, the thymus gland, becomes smaller and completely disappears during childhood, and other organs, especially the liver, are proportionately smaller in the adult than in the infant.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1985–2019).