thyronine has definitions from the fields of biology,chemistry,biochemistry
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[ noun ] (biology,chemistry,biochemistry) a phenolic amino acid of which thyroxine is a derivative

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(Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)

In the thyroid_gland it appears that proteins ( chiefly thyroglobulin ) are iodinated and that free tyrosine and thyronine are not iodinated .

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amino_acid

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