A form of the thyroid hormone thyroxine that has had iodine atoms removed or reduced.
Formed from 'de-' (removal), 'iodo-' (relating to iodine), 'thyrox-' (from thyroxine, the thyroid hormone), and the chemical suffix '-ine.' This is a technical pharmaceutical term created to describe a specific molecular variant.
Thyroxine is one of your body's most important hormones, and chemists can remove iodine atoms from it to create this variant—it's chemistry's version of 'musical chairs' with molecules, and it shows how changing one atom can create entirely new substances.
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