hyperparathyroidism

1. 1.

   excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; can affect many systems of the body (especially causing bone resorption and osteoporosis)

   Antonymshypoparathyroidism

   Broaderglandular disease

Other forms of hyperparathyroidism

plural

hyperparathyroidisms·

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 hyperparathyroidism

What does hyperparathyroidism mean?

hyperparathyroidism means "excessive secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; can affect many systems of the body (especially causing bone resorption and osteoporosis)".

How many syllables are in hyperparathyroidism?

hyperparathyroidism has 7 syllables: hy-per-pa-ra-thy-roi-dism. The stress falls on "thy".

What is the opposite of hyperparathyroidism?

The recorded antonyms are hypoparathyroidism.

Is hyperparathyroidism a common word?

hyperparathyroidism 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.