Pharmacologic Substance
etidronate Audio
[ ee-tih-droh-nayt ]
Effect:
Bone Resorption Inhibition
May Treat:
Hypercalcemia; Ossification, Heterotopic; Paget Disease, Extramammary
Definitions related to etidronate:
  • A medication used to treat bone loss due to Paget's disease.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Ethane-1-hydroxy-1,1-diphosphonate; a diphosphonate compound that affects calcium metabolism and inhibits the resorption and deposition of hydroxyapatite crystals in bone.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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