甲狀腺

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See also: 甲状腺

Chinese

armour-shaped; relating to the thyroid gland gland
trad. (甲狀腺) 甲狀
simp. (甲状腺) 甲状

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese (こう)(じょう)(せん) (kōjōsen), attested as early as 1903 in 《新爾雅》 by Wang Rongbao (汪榮寶) (Huang, 2020).

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Noun

甲狀腺

  1. (anatomy) thyroid gland

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