Talk:thyroid's secretory capacity

RFD discussion: October–November 2016
Sum of parts. The part of the meaning not strictly derived from the meanings of the parts is derivable from the context and from encyclopedic information about thyroid function: if you know that thyroxine is what the thyroid produces, then you know what this term means. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:20, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. The meaning of the term is not clear from the parts. Secretory capacity is often mixed-up with secretion rate. Both are measured in mol/sec or multiples. The secretory capacity is, however, defined as the maximum stimulated amount of thyroxine that the thyroid gland can produce in a given time-unit, while secretory rate is the current instantaneous amount of thyroxine produced by the thyroid.--Jwdietrich2 (talk) 18:53, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * But that's also true of "the secretory capacity of the thyroid" or even "the secretory capacity of that thing in the neck that produced hormones". You're just stating a fact about how one measures the secretory capacity of the thyroid, not defining a term. In fact, I just checked on Google Books and Google Scholar: between them there are 10 hits for this spelling. This isn't a set phrase or a standard term- it's just a paraphrase of more common ways to say this. Chuck Entz (talk) 12:24, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Encyclopedic and SoP. We are not the short-attention-span edition of Wikipedia. DCDuring TALK 22:52, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * lung capacity? lung volume? DTLHS (talk) 22:56, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I've always considered it bad form to systematically go after all the SoP entries, but I'd make an exception for those used in defense of an SoP entry. DCDuring TALK 10:56, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete sum of parts with an obvious meaning. SemperBlotto (talk) 05:13, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Delete. --Hekaheka (talk) 16:10, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per DCDuring. - -sche (discuss) 19:14, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Deleted. — SMUconlaw (talk) 10:35, 7 November 2016 (UTC)