扁桃腺

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Chinese

almond; flat peach gland
trad. (扁桃腺) 扁桃
simp. #(扁桃腺) 扁桃
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Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese (へん)(とう)(せん) (hentōsen) (Liu et al., 1984; Huang, 2020), attested as early as 1902 (Huang, 2020).

Pronunciation


Note: hiân-tó͘-sián - from Japanese.

Noun

扁桃腺

  1. (anatomy, immunology) tonsil

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
へん
Hyōgai
とう
Grade: S
せん
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(へん)(とう)(せん) (hentōsenへんたうせん (fentausen)?

  1. (anatomy, immunology) tonsil

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN