acromegaly

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French acromégalie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin acromegalia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἄκρον (ákron, “tip, extremity”) and μέγας (mégas, “large”). acro- +‎ -megaly

Noun

acromegaly (plural acromegalies)

1. (pathology) A chronic disease marked by enlargement of the bones of the extremities, face, and jaw that is caused by over-activity of the pituitary gland.

Synonyms

• acromegalia
• acromegaloidism
• Marie's disease

Derived terms

• acromegaliac
• acromegalic
• acromegaloid

Translations

chronic disease marked by enlargement of the bones

• Afrikaans: akromegalie
• Albanian: akromegalia f
• Armenian: ակրոմեգալիա (hy) (akromegalia)
• Azerbaijani: akromeqaliya
• Basque: akromegalia
• Belarusian: акрамега́лія f (akramjehálija)
• Bulgarian: акромега́лия f (akromegálija)
• Catalan: acromegàlia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 肢端肥大癥／肢端肥大症, 肢端肥大症 (ji¹ dyun¹ fei⁴ daai⁶ jing¹)

  Mandarin: 肢端肥大癥／肢端肥大症 (zh), 肢端肥大症 (zh) (zhīduānféidàzhèng)

• Czech: akromegalie f
• Danish: akromegali c
• Dhivehi: އެކްރޯމެގަލީ (ek̊rōmegalī)
• Dutch: acromegalie f or m
• Estonian: akromegaalia
• Finnish: akromegalia (fi)
• French: acromégalie (fr) f
• Galician: acromegalia f
• Georgian: აკრომეგალია (aḳromegalia)
• German: Akromegalie f
• Greek: μεγαλακρία (el) f (megalakría), ακρομεγαλία (el) f (akromegalía)
• Hebrew: אַקְרוֹמֵגָלְיָה (he) f (akromegalyah)
• Hungarian: akromegália (hu)
• Indonesian: akromegali (id)
• Irish: acraimeigileacht f
• Italian: acromegalia (it) f
• Japanese: 先端巨大症 (せんたんきょだいしょう, sentankyodaishō)
• Kannada: ತೋರವಯವಿ (kn) (tōravayavi), ಅತಿಕಾಯ (kn) (atikāya)
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• Kazakh: акромегалия (akromegaliä)
• Korean: 말단비대증 (maldanbidaejeung)
• Kyrgyz: акромегалия (akromegaliya)
• Latvian: akromegālija f
• Lithuanian: akromegalija f
• Macedonian: акромегалија f (akromegalija)
• Malayalam: അക്രോമെഗാലി (akrōmegāli)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akromegali m

  Nynorsk: akromegali m

• Oriya: ଆକ୍ରୋମେଗାଲି (ākromegāli)
• Polish: akromegalia (pl) f
• Portuguese: acromegalia f
• Romanian: acromegalie (ro) f
• Russian: акромега́лия (ru) f (akromegálija)
• Sardinian: acromegalia f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: акромега̀лија f

  Roman: akromegàlija (sh) f

• Slovak: akromegália f
• Slovene: akromegalija f
• Spanish: acromegalia (es) f
• Swedish: akromegali (sv) c
• Tagalog: akromegalya
• Telugu: అతికాయత (atikāyata)
• Thai: อะโครเมกาลี (à kroh may-gaa lee)
• Turkish: akromegali (tr)
• Ukrainian: акромега́лія f (akromehálija)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: акромегалия (akromegaliya)

  Roman: akromegaliya

• Welsh: acromegaledd f

See also

• gigantism