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Parathyroid (medicine)


parathyroid


1. <anatomy> Situated beside the thyroid gland.

2. <endocrinology> One of the parathyroid glands.

3. <pharmacology> 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.