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Definition of Parathyroid

1. Noun. Any one of four endocrine glands situated above or within the thyroid gland.

Definition of Parathyroid

1. Adjective. Situated near the thyroid gland. ¹

2. Adjective. Pertaining to the parathyroid glands or their extracts. ¹

3. Noun. The parathyroid gland. ¹

4. Noun. A parathyroid hormone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parathyroid

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Parathyroid

1. 1. Situated beside the thyroid gland. 2. One of the parathyroid glands. 3. A sterile preparation of the water soluble principle of the parathyroid glands, administered parenterally as an antihypocalcaemic, especially in the treatment of acute hypoparathyroidism with tetany. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Parathyroid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"Observations on the Thyroid and parathyroid of the Dog. By WALTER EDMUNDS. It has been shown that if the whole of one lobe of the thyroid gland be removed, ..."

2. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"On the left a small body was thought to be a parathyroid and was removed. ... The right lobe of the thyroid removed; external parathyroid left in situ with ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"The Treatment of Paralysis Agitans with the parathyroid Gland. BERKELEY (Med. Record, 1916, xc, 105) says that further experience seems to justify the ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Concerning over-activity of the parathyroid gland, we know as yet little or nothing, though many hypotheses have been advanced. 1. ..."

5. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"Tetany in Infants.—Tetany and related conditions are particularly common in infants. Various changes in the parathyroid glands have ..."

6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1907)
"In some compartments there was no central cavity, the cells being aggregated into solid clusters as in a parathyroid. In certain parts the whole appearance ..."

7. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"3 Effect of parathyroid Hormone upon Release of Degradative Enzymes from Rat Bone (40642)1 RL CRUESS, KC HONG, AND F. NAKAMURA ..."

8. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Various changes in the parathyroid glands have been described in such patients, ... In such cases the parathyroid glands are usually intact and the ..."

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