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PTH

PTH is the initialism of plated through-hole.

PTH is the initialism of parathyroid hormone.

PTH is the initialism of Putonghua.

Meaning of parathyroid hormone

Noun

parathyroid hormone (plural parathyroid hormones, abbreviation PTH)

  1. A polypeptide hormone that is released by the chief cells of the parathyroid glands and is involved in raising the levels of calcium ions in the blood.

Meaning of Putonghua

Proper noun

Putonghua

  1. Standard Mandarin, the official language of the People's Republic of China; the state-designated national speech of the Han nationality using Beijing pronunciation as the standard pronunciation, Beijing speech as the basic dialect, and the model writing of the modern vernacular prose as the norm for grammar.
    • As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10

Forms of PTH

pluralPTHs

Questions about PTH

What is PTH the initialism of?
PTH is the initialism of plated through-hole.

Words near PTH in the dictionary

  1. PTFE
  2. PTFEs
  3. PTFs
  4. ptg.
  5. PTGS
  6. PTH
  7. PTHC
  8. pthiriasis
  9. PTHS
  10. PTI
  11. ptilichthyid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PTH (page history and authors); parathyroid hormone (page history and authors); Putonghua (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.

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