Usually means: Regulate calcium levels in body.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. parathyroid glands: Merriam-Webster
  2. parathyroid glands: Collins English Dictionary
  3. parathyroid glands: Vocabulary.com
  4. parathyroid glands: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. parathyroid glands: Wiktionary
  6. parathyroid glands: Dictionary.com
  7. Parathyroid glands: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Parathyroid glands: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parathyroid glands: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. parathyroid glands: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Parathyroid glands: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Parathyroid Glands: Anatomy of the Human Body
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Parathyroid glands: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. Parathyroid glands: Medical dictionary
  10. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See parathyroid_gland as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (parathyroid gland)

noun:  (anatomy) Any one of four endocrine glands situated in the neck, usually within a thyroid gland, which produce parathyroid hormone.
▸ Also see parathyroid_gland


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