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16 letters · 23 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer
originFrom tri- + iodothyronine.
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