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From thyroid cartilage to thyroid gland
Affiliations- Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- Medical School, University of Patras, Greece
- Neurosurgical Department, Children Hospital ‘P. & A. Kyriakou’, Athens, Greece
- Department of Anatomy, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- History of Medicine Department, University of Crete, Greece
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Abstract
The ancient Greek physicians skipped the description of thyroid gland probablydue to their difficultly to understand the anatomy and the existence of this organ.Although the ancient physicians had described the disease bronchocele (Greek:Βρογχοκήλη), this disease did not correspond exactly to goitre. The first officialdescription of this gland was made by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564). Thomas Wharton (1614–1673) in his work Adenographia was the one who coined the term ‘Glandulae thyreoidea‘.
Abstract
The ancient Greek physicians skipped the description of thyroid gland probablydue to their difficultly to understand the anatomy and the existence of this organ.Although the ancient physicians had described the disease bronchocele (Greek:Βρογχοκήλη), this disease did not correspond exactly to goitre. The first officialdescription of this gland was made by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564). Thomas Wharton (1614–1673) in his work Adenographia was the one who coined the term ‘Glandulae thyreoidea‘.
Keywords
botium; thyroid foramen; Galen; Thomas Wharton
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From thyroid cartilage to thyroid gland
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2018-07-03
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Folia Morphol 2019;78(1):171-173.
Keywords
botium
thyroid foramen
Galen
Thomas Wharton
Authors
K. Laios
E. Lagiou
V. Konofaou
M. Piagkou
M. Karamanou
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