CALCITONIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calcitonin mean? 

• CALCITONIN (noun)
  The noun CALCITONIN has 1 sense:

1. thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone

  Familiarity information: CALCITONIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALCITONIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

calcitonin; thyrocalcitonin

Hypernyms ("calcitonin" is a kind of...):

thyroid hormone (any of several closely related compounds that are produced by the thyroid gland and are active metabolically)

 Context examples 

A syndrome characterized by abnormal secretion of calcitonin in conjunction with neoplastic growth occurring anywhere in the body.

(Ectopic Calcitonin Secretion Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

An inherited form of medullary thyroid cancer (cancer that forms in the cells of the thyroid that make the hormone calcitonin).

(Familial medullary thyroid cancer, NCI Dictionary)

The C cells make a hormone (calcitonin) that helps maintain a healthy level of calcium in the blood.

(Medullary thyroid cancer, NCI Dictionary)

A measurement of the calcitonin hormone in a biological specimen.

(Calcitonin Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the amount of calcitonin hormone present in a sample.

(Calcitonin Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

It produces and secretes calcitonin in response to its calcium receptor.

(C-Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes calcitonin protein, is involved in the regulation of circulating calcium levels.

(CALCA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

When the calcium level is too high, calcitonin lowers it.

(Calcitonin, NCI Dictionary)

C cells make calcitonin, a hormone that helps control the calcium level in the blood.

(C cell, NCI Dictionary)