thyroid gland

English

A thyroid gland prepared in 1925 as a medical specimen in the collection of the Anatomisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland

Etymology

From New Latin glandula thyreoidea, coined by Thomas Wharton in 1656.

Noun

thyroid gland (plural thyroid glands)

1. (anatomy) A large butterfly-shaped endocrine gland situated on the front of the neck that produces various hormones.

Related terms

• hyperthyroidism
• hypothyroidism
• thyroidectomy

Translations

large butterfly-shaped endocrine gland

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: غُدَّة دَرَقِيَّة f (ḡudda daraqiyya)

  Egyptian Arabic: غدة درقية f (ğuda daraqeya)

• Armenian: վահանագեղձ (hy) (vahanageġj)
• Asturian: tiroides f
• Azerbaijani: qalxanabənzər vəzi
• Catalan: tiroide (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甲狀腺／甲状腺 (zh) (jiǎzhuàngxiàn), 甲状腺 (zh) (jiǎzhuàngxiàn)

• Crimean Tatar: qalqan bezi
• Czech: štítná žláza (cs) f
• Dutch: schildklier (nl) f
• Esperanto: tiroido (eo)
• Estonian: kilpnääre
• Finnish: kilpirauhanen (fi)
• French: glande thyroïde (fr) f
• Galician: tiroide f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schilddrüse (de)
• Hebrew: בַּלּוּטַת הַתְּרִיס f (balutát hatrís)
• Hungarian: pajzsmirigy (hu)
• Icelandic: skjaldkirtill (is) m
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• Indonesian: kelenjar tiroid
• Irish: faireog thíoróideach f
• Japanese: 甲状腺 (こうじょうせん, kōjōsen)
• Javanese: klanjer gondhok
• Korean: 갑상샘 (gapsangsaem)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: Skydliaukė f
• Maori: repe tenga
• Marathi: अवटु ग्रंथी f (avṭu granthī)
• Mongolian: бамбай булчирхай (bambaj bulčirxaj)
• Navajo: alohkʼeʼ kʼaalógii nahalinígíí
• Occitan: tiroïde m
• Polish: tarczyca (pl) f
• Portuguese: tiroide (pt) f (Portugal), tireoide (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: tiroidă f
• Russian: щитови́дная железа́ (ru) f (ščitovídnaja železá)
• Spanish: tiroides (es) f, glándula tiroides
• Swedish: sköldkörtel (sv) c, tyreoidea (sv)
• Tagalog: kulangi
• Thai: ต่อมไทรอยด์ (dtɔ̀m-tai-rɔɔi)
• Tibetan: ལྦ་བ (lba ba)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: щитоподі́бна за́лоза f (ščytopodíbna záloza)

See also

• goitre

Further reading

• thyroid gland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia