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HYPERCALCEMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget's disease
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hypercalcemia" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Antonym:
hypocalcemia (abnormally low level of calcium in the blood; associated with hypoparathyroidism or kidney malfunction or vitamin D deficiency)
Context examples:
An undifferentiated small cell carcinoma that arises from the ovary and is associated with hypercalcemia.
(Ovarian Small Cell Carcinoma, Hypercalcemic Type, NCI Thesaurus)
By preventing osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, neridronic acid decreases bone turnover rate, stabilizes the bone matrix and reduces hypercalcemia.
(Neridronic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
Some types of cancer increase the risk of hypercalcemia.
(Hypercalcemia, NCI Dictionary)
A drug used in the treatment of hypercalcemia (abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood) and cancer that has spread to the bone (bone metastases).
(Clodronate, NCI Dictionary)
A drug used as treatment for hypercalcemia (abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood) and for cancer that has spread to the bone (bone metastases).
(Clodronate Disodium, NCI Dictionary)
The reactive C-cell hyperplasia is also known as physiological or secondary C-cell hyperplasia and it is associated with conditions that cause hypercalcemia (e.g., hyperparathyroidism).
(C-Cell Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
A drug or substance used to treat hypercalcemia (abnormally high blood calcium) and bone pain caused by some types of cancer.
(Biphosphonate, NCI Dictionary)
A drug used to treat hypercalcemia (high blood levels of calcium) caused by certain types of cancer.
(Aredia, NCI Dictionary)
Mutations in CYP24A1 are associated with infantile hypercalcemia.
(CYP24A1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
This agent may control malignancy-associated hypercalcemia, inhibit osteolytic bone metastasis and decrease pain.
(Clodronate Disodium, NCI Thesaurus)
