calcitonin

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsthyrocalcitonin

   Broaderthyroid hormone

Other forms of calcitonin

plural

calcitonins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about calcitonin

What does calcitonin mean?

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

How many syllables are in calcitonin?

calcitonin has 4 syllables: cal-ci-to-nin. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for calcitonin?

Close synonyms include thyrocalcitonin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calcitonin a common word?

calcitonin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.