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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
hypoparathyroidism is a noun meaning "inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally low levels of calcium in the blood". It carries one recorded sense.
inadequate secretion of parathyroid hormone resulting in abnormally low levels of calcium in the blood
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hypoparathyroidism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.