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thyronine Chem.|ˈθaɪərəniːn| [f. thyro- + -n- + -ine5.] The amino-acid HOC6H4OC6H4CH2CH(NH2)COOH, of which thyroxine can be regarded as a formal derivative (see quots.).
1928C. R. Harington in Biochem. Jrnl. XXII. 1430 In order to lessen the clumsiness of the systematic nomenclature of thyroxine derivatives it is proposed to call the amino-acid, desiodothyroxine, ‘thyronine’..so that thyroxine would be ‘3:5:3′:5′-tetraiodothyronine’. 1970R. W. McGilvery Biochemistry xxiii. 562 (caption) The active thyroid hormone, thyroxine, is in a formal sense the tetraiodo derivative of an amino acid called thyronine. |