Disease or Syndrome
parathyroid hyperplasia
par·a·thy·roid hy·per·pla·sia
Definitions related to parathyroid hyperplasia:
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A hyperplasia of the parathyroid gland.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Abnormal increase in the number of otherwise normal cells in the parathyroid gland without tumor formation that leading to enlargement of the gland; it differs from hypertrophy, which is an increase in bulk without an increase in the number of cells.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Hyperplasia of the parathyroid gland.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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