How to Use thymus in a Sentence

thymus

noun
  • The thymus gland sits in the middle of the chest and is large in infants.
    — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The thymus is one place where such cleverness leaves its trace.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Secondly, the mice had healthy thymus glands well into old age.
    — Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The chef also knows not everybody leaps at the thought of thymus glands for dinner.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Production of these cells, from a gland in the chest known as the thymus, drops sharply over the course of a person’s life.
    — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2020
  • In the older sedentary people, the output of new T cells from the thymus glands was low.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
  • These are the thymus glands or pancreas of the animal — prized by many chefs for their mildness and, yes, sweetness.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Dria has been waiting over a year for a thymus transplant to regenerate her immune cells.
    — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 12 June 2018
  • The role of the thymus in our long-term immunity and health is poorly understood.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Your thymus is a gland that produces T cells, which are very important to your immune system.
    — Bill Gifford, Scientific American, 31 July 2023
  • Eight years ago, her 15-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare cancer of the thymus, a small organ near the heart.
    — Michael Phillis and Jim Salter, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
  • For example, the root chakra correlates with the testes or ovaries, the throat chakra with the thyroid gland and the heart chakra with the thymus.
    — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The thymus, a strawberry-size gland in the chest, produces a steady stream of T cell precursors in our youth.
    — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2013
  • In humans, the thymus sits above the heart and produces a type of white blood cell that’s critical to immune system function.
    — Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The thymus gland and the bone marrow are two examples of immune-cell-producing organs.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
  • The lymph system includes the lymph nodes as well as bone marrow, the spleen, and the thymus gland, the Mayo Clinic says.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The thymus is a small organ behind the breastbone that helps to establish the body’s immune system early in life.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 6 May 2026
  • The cause was complications from a rare cancer of the thymus, said his wife Christina Llewellyn.
    — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Sometimes lymphomas start in the thymus gland, another part of your immune system that's located in the chest.
    — Barbara Brody, Health, 26 Feb. 2023
  • After seven days many of the animals were already budding new thymuses.
    — Taylor Mitchell Brown, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Treating the thymus could also drastically change the aging process.
    — Eli Dourado, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The thymus gland is a small organ that lies in the upper chest, under the breastbone, that makes white blood cells, which protect the body against infections.
    — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In all vertebrates, the thymus degenerates very rapidly with age.
    — Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • And many people have had their thymus removed, primarily as a treatment for myasthenia gravis.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 6 May 2026
  • For the new study, Yun and her colleagues removed the thymus from several juvenile axolotls.
    — Taylor Mitchell Brown, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Scientists have grown mice containing cells from rat pancreases or thymuses, as well as rats that have pancreas or kidney cells from mice.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • But Easton’s thymus didn’t produce the very cells that would reject a transplanted organ.
    — NBC News, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Other parts of the immune system include the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes, lymphocytes, white blood cells, and antibodies.
    — Philly.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • However, researchers had inklings that there were other mechanisms to tone down immune responses, ones outside the thymus.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The thymus is responsible for producing the body’s T cells, which help to target and destroy invading pathogens.
    — Taylor Mitchell Brown, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2026

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