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Definition: Calcitonin |
CalcitoninNoun1. Thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A peptide hormone that lowers calcium concentration in the blood. In humans, it is released by thyroid cells and acts to decrease the formation and absorptive activity of osteoclasts. Its role in regulating plasma calcium is much greater in children and in certain diseases than in normal adults. (references) |
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Synonym: CalcitoninSynonym: thyrocalcitonin (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Calcitonin |
| Specialty definitions using "calcitonin": Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide ♦ D Cells ♦ Receptors, Calcitonin, Receptors, Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide. (references) |
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Health | Drugs available to prevent further bone loss include bisphosphonates like alendronate and risedronate, calcitonin, and the SERM (selective estrogen receptor modulator) raloxifene. (references) | |
Aim for 30 minutes of weight-bearing exercises like walking, jogging, or weight lifting 3 days a week or more. Third, taking estrogen or one of several other drugs available will also prevent further loss of bone. Drugs approved for osteoporosis by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) include raloxifene, alendronate, and calcitonin. (references) | ||
Other drugs such as the bisphosphonates, oral phosphate, calcitonin, or mithramycin, which modify the PTH-induced stimulation of bone resorption, are not presently indicated in patients with asymptomatic HPT. However, bisphosphonates or oral phosphate may be considered in the rare patient with symptomatic hyperparathyroidism who is not a surgical candidate because of severe concurrent diseases. (references) | ||
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| "Calcitonin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Calcitonin" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "calcitonin": Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "calcitonin": calcitonin-gene-related. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
calcitonin | 67 |
calcitonin salmon | 5 |
calcitonin osteoporosis | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "calcitonin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | calcitonin, svin (porcine), calcitonin, menneskelig (human), calcitonin, af kyllinger (chicken), calcitonin, af hornkvæg (bovine), calcitonin. (various references) | |
Dutch | calcitonine, van varken (porcine), calcitonine, van runderen (bovine), calcitonine, van kip (chicken), calcitonine, menselijk (human), calcitonine. (various references) | |
Finnish | kalsitoniini, sika (porcine), kalsitoniini, nauta (bovine), kalsitoniini, kana (chicken), kalsitoniini, ihminen (human), kalsitoniini. (various references) | |
French | calcitonine, poulet, calcitonine, porcine, calcitonine, humaine, calcitonine, bovine, calcitonine. (various references) | |
German | Calcitonin, von Schwein (porcine), Calcitonin, von Rindern (bovine), Calcitonin, menschlich (human), Calcitonin, Hühnchen (chicken), Calcitonin. (various references) | |
Italian | calcitonina, umana (human), calcitonina, suina (porcine), calcitonina, pollo (chicken), calcitonina, bovina (bovine), calcitonina. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alcitonincay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calcitonina, su'na (porcine), calcitonina, humana (human), calcitonina, frango (chicken), calcitonina, bovina (bovine), calcitonina. (various references) | |
Spanish | calcitonina, pollo (chicken), calcitonina, humana (human), calcitonina, bovina (bovine), calcitonina, calcitonín, porcina (porcine). (various references) | |
Swedish | kalcitonin, svin (porcine), kalcitonin, kyckling (chicken), kalcitonin, humant (human), kalcitonin, bovint (bovine), kalcitonin. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "calcitonin": calcitonins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "calcitonin": thyrocalcitonin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "calcitonin": thyrocalcitonins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-i-l-n-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: clintonia. | |
-2 letters: aconitic, cationic, iconical, inaction, lactonic. | |
-3 letters: aclinic, actinic, actinon, anionic, antlion, cannoli, canonic, colicin, colitic, conical, contain, laconic, nicotin, nitinol. | |
-4 letters: acinic, action, alnico, anilin, anoint, atonic, calico, cannot, cantic, canton, cation, catlin, citola, clinic, clitic, clonic, cocain, coital, iconic, incant, italic, lactic, latino, nation, niacin, oilcan, talion, tannic, tincal. | |
-5 letters: acini, actin, aioli, aloin, ancon, anion, antic, cacti, canon, canto, cilia, coact, coati, colic, colin, conic, conin, cotan, ictic, iliac, inion, ionic, licit, linac, linin, litai, lotic, nicol, niton, notal, octal, octan, ontic, talon, tical, tolan, tonal, tonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-i-l-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: calcination, calcitonins, inculcation, noncritical. | |
+2 letters: anticyclonic, calcinations, coincidental, conciliating, conciliation, inculcations. | |
+3 letters: conciliations. | |
+4 letters: coincidentally, consociational, noncirculating, reconciliation. | |
+5 letters: anticholinergic, antimonarchical, communicational, conceptualising, conceptualizing, counterclaiming, functionalistic, noninsecticidal, occidentalizing, reconciliations, thyrocalcitonin. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 6C 63 69 74 6F 6E 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-.. -.-. .. - --- -. .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101100 01100011 01101001 01110100 01101111 01101110 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l c i t o n i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 0063 0069 0074 006F 006E 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37677869758681807580 |
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