(Certain events and circumstances can delay or âtollâ statutes of limitations, essentially lengthening the time period for bringing a claim.) Assume one person wants to sue another for assault and battery. Assume also that the statute of limitations for assault and battery is two years.
In some ways the Jod-Basedow phenomenon is the opposite of the Wolff-Chaikoff effect, which refers to the short period of thyroid-hormone suppression which happens in normal persons and in persons with thyroid disease, when comparatively large quantities of iodine or iodide are ingested.
The latter situation is handled by the thyroid by acutely inhibiting the organification of iodine, the so-called acute Wolff-Chaikoff effect, by a mechanism not well understood 52 years after the original description.