[f. Gr. θίμος (ῠ) THYMUS + -IC.]

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  1.  Anat. and Path. Of, pertaining to, or connected with the thymus gland.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., s.v. Vein, Thymick veine..., the first branch of the subclavicular, goes to the fag peece or kernel, which is under the kannel bone.

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1831.  R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 633. The arteries of the pericardium … arise from the thymic, phrenic, bronchial, and œsophageal arteries.

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1849–52.  Todd’s Cycl. Anat., IV. 1102/1. ‘Thymic asthma’ may occur with an unnaturally small thymus.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 99. Spasm of the glottis—the so-called ‘thymic asthma.’

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  2.  Physiol. Chem. In thymic acid, C16H25N3P2O12, a colourless acid obtained from the thymus gland. Its salts are Thymates.

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1894.  Jrnl. Chem. Soc., LXVI. I. 156 [see THYMIN]. Ibid. (1896), LXX. I. 658. Nucleic acid is decomposed by hydrolysis into thymic acid, adenine, guanine, and cytosine…. Barium thymate, C16H25N3P2O12Ba,… dissolves readily in water, and, when anhydrous, is excessively hygroscopic…. Thymic acid differs from the parent nucleic acid by its ready solubility in water.

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1898.  Schäfer’s Text Bk. Physiol., I. 67.

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