13741 IUPAC Gold Book - autoimmune thyroiditis 10.1351/goldbook.13741 13741 current synonym: autoimmune thyroiditis 1 Inflammatory destruction of the thyroid gland (ranging from a mild focal thyroiditis to extensive lymphocytic infiltration and scarring) often associated with goiter and hypothyroidism. The most common types of autoimmune thyroiditis are Hashimoto thyroiditis and atrophic thyroiditis. Hashimoto thyroiditis https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13195 lymphocytic https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13399 PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. 'IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 1253 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-11-06-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13741/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13741/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13741/plain Citation: 'autoimmune thyroiditis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.13741 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-13T23:31:15+00:00