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The thyroid gland might have been misspelled for centuries: a recommendation for the reinstatement of the legitimate term “thyreoid” and/or introduction of the hybrid term “thyr(e)oid”

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    Christos Tsagkaris

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Dimitrios V. Moysidis, Andreas S. Papazoglou & Dimitrios A. Anastasilakis

  3. Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Tsagkaris, C., Moysidis, D.V., Papazoglou, A.S. et al. The thyroid gland might have been misspelled for centuries: a recommendation for the reinstatement of the legitimate term “thyreoid” and/or introduction of the hybrid term “thyr(e)oid”. Hormones 21, 747–749 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42000-022-00357-y

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