CALCIUM PHOSPHATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calcium phosphate mean? 

• CALCIUM PHOSPHATE (noun)
  The noun CALCIUM PHOSPHATE has 1 sense:

1. a phosphate of calcium; a main constituent of animal bones

  Familiarity information: CALCIUM PHOSPHATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALCIUM PHOSPHATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A phosphate of calcium; a main constituent of animal bones

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("calcium phosphate" is a kind of...):

inorganic phosphate; orthophosphate; phosphate (a salt of phosphoric acid)

 Context examples 

However, it is caused by calcium phosphate, not uric acid.

(Gout, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

This agent inhibits the absorption of phosphate by forming highly insoluble lanthanum-phosphate complexes that reduce concentrations of serum phosphate and calcium phosphate.

(Lanthanum, NCI Thesaurus)

Lanthanum ion binds dietary phosphate and inhibits the absorption of phosphate by forming highly insoluble lanthanum-phosphate complexes that reduce the concentrations of serum phosphate and calcium phosphate.

(Lanthanum Cation (3), NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the calcium phosphate crystals present in a biological specimen.

(Calcium Phosphate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the amount of calcium phosphate crystals present in a sample.

(Calcium Phosphate Crystal Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Although its mechanism of action is not completely understood, pamidronate appears to adsorb to calcium phosphate crystals in bone, blocking their dissolution by inhibiting osteoclast-mediated bone resorption.

(Pamidronate disodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Bone Formation Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, synthesis by osteoblasts of the hard connective tissue that constitutes the vertebrate skeleton and consists of a matrix of collagenous fibers impregnated chiefly with calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate.

(Bone Formation Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

Bone Formation Stimulation involves initiation of synthesis by osteoblasts of the hard connective tissue that constitutes the vertebrate skeleton and consists of a matrix of collagenous fibers impregnated chiefly with calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate.

(Bone Formation Stimulation, NCI Thesaurus)

Bone Resorption Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, absorption and removal of the hard connective tissue that constitutes the vertebrate skeleton and consists of a matrix of collagenous fibers impregnated chiefly with calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate and release of bone salts (phosphorus and, especially, calcium) into the extracellular fluid by osteoclasts, activated by parathyroid hormone.

(Bone Resorption Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)

Bone Resorption Stimulation involves initiation of absorption and removal of the hard connective tissue that constitutes the vertebrate skeleton and consists of a matrix of collagenous fibers impregnated chiefly with calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate and release of bone salts (phosphorus and, especially, calcium) into the extracellular fluid by osteoclasts, activated by parathyroid hormone.

(Bone Resorption Stimulation, NCI Thesaurus)