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noun
A reduction in thyroid hormone levels caused by ingestion of a large amount of iodine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Discovered by Drs. Jan Wolff and Israel Lyon Chaikoff at the University of California in the 1940s.
