parathyroid gland

1. 1.

   any one of four endocrine glands situated above or within the thyroid gland

   Synonymsparathyroid

   Broaderendocrine gland

Questions about parathyroid gland

What does parathyroid gland mean?

parathyroid gland means "any one of four endocrine glands situated above or within the thyroid gland".

What is another word for parathyroid gland?

Close synonyms include parathyroid. 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 parathyroid gland a common word?

parathyroid gland 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.