Word.ws English Dictionary

parathyroid

parathyroid adjective: situated near the thyroid gland.

Adjective

parathyroid (not comparable)

  1. Situated near the thyroid gland.
  2. Pertaining to the parathyroid glands or their extracts.

Noun

parathyroid (plural parathyroids)

  1. A parathyroid gland.
  2. A parathyroid hormone.

parathyroid meaning in Tamil and Bengali

parathyroid in Tamil

பேராதைராய்டு சுரப்பி, இணை தைராய்டு, பாராத்தைராய்டு, புடைக்கேடயச்சுரப்பி

parathyroid in Bengali

থাইরয়েড গ্রন্থির কাছে অবস্থিত, প্যারাথাইরয়েড গ্রন্থি, একটি প্যারাথাইরয়েড হরমোন

Forms of parathyroid

pluralparathyroids

Origin of parathyroid

From para- + thyroid.

Words formed from parathyroid

Phrases with parathyroid

Words that rhyme with parathyroid

Questions about parathyroid

What does parathyroid mean?
Parathyroid means situated near the thyroid gland.
What is parathyroid in Tamil?
Parathyroid in Tamil is பேராதைராய்டு சுரப்பி, இணை தைராய்டு, பாராத்தைராய்டு. See Parathyroid meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is parathyroid?
Parathyroid can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near parathyroid in the dictionary

  1. parathletics
  2. parathormone
  3. parathormones
  4. parathymic
  5. parathyrin
  6. parathyroid
  7. parathyroid gland
  8. parathyroid glands
  9. parathyroid hormone
  10. parathyroid hormones
  11. parathyroidal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: parathyroid (page history and authors); parathyroid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); parathyroid (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “parathyroid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/parathyroid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.