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thyrocalcitonin

US/ˌθaɪ.ɹoʊˌkæl.sɪˈtoʊ.nɪn/

thyrocalcitonin is the alternative form 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.

Forms of thyrocalcitonin

pluralthyrocalcitonins

Origin of thyrocalcitonin

From thyro- + calcitonin.

Questions about thyrocalcitonin

What is thyrocalcitonin the alternative form of?
Thyrocalcitonin is the alternative form of calcitonin.
How do you pronounce thyrocalcitonin?
Thyrocalcitonin is pronounced /ˌθaɪ.ɹoʊˌkæl.sɪˈtoʊ.nɪn/ (US).

Words near thyrocalcitonin in the dictionary

  1. thyroarytenoidei
  2. thyroarytenoideus
  3. thyroarytenoids
  4. thyroblast
  5. thyroblasts
  6. thyrocalcitonin
  7. thyrocalcitonins
  8. thyrocardiac
  9. thyrocervical
  10. thyrocervical trunk
  11. thyrocervical trunks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thyrocalcitonin (page history and authors); calcitonin (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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