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calcitonins

calcitonins is the plural of calcitonin.

Meaning of calcitonin

Noun

calcitonin (countable and uncountable, plural calcitonins)

  1. A polypeptide hormone secreted by the thyroid gland that has the effect of lowering blood calcium.
    • Intriguingly, the rat C1b isoform of the calcitonin receptor (CTR) (see Section VI-B) has very little interaction with the thyroidally derived form of calcitonin.1997, Louis V. Avioli, Metabolic Bone Disease and Clinically Related Disorders, page 98
  2. A synthetic or recombinant form of calcitonin used to treat Paget disease of bone and postmenopausal osteoporosis.

Questions about calcitonins

What is calcitonins the plural of?
Calcitonins is the plural of calcitonin.

Words near calcitonins in the dictionary

  1. calcitic
  2. calcitization
  3. calcitizations
  4. calcitized
  5. calcitonin
  6. calcitonins
  7. calcitrant
  8. calcitrate
  9. calcitrating
  10. calcitration
  11. calcitrations

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