Pierre Lalouette de Vernicourt, (*1711 in Vernicourt a populated place in Bourgogne, a region of France; died in 1792) was a distinguished French anatomist.
He described what will later be called the Lalouette's Pyramid

Lalouette's Pyramid

Lalouette's pyramid is a pyramidal extension of the thyroid gland, described by Pierre Lalouette in 1743.Lalouette's pyramid is seldom present in representations of the thyroid....

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About a possible function for the thyroid gland, Lalouette said, in 1743 : « The thyroid would intervene to modulate voice expression by the liquid it produces. »

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