endocrinology

English

Etymology

From French endocrinologie, or endocrine +‎ -ology

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛn.də.krɪˈnɑ.lə.dʒi/

Noun

endocrinology (countable and uncountable, plural endocrinologies)

1. (physiology) The study of the endocrine glands of the human body, the hormones produced by them, and their related disorders

Related terms

• endocrine
• intracrinology

Translations

study of the endocrine glands

• Catalan: endocrinologia f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 內分泌學, 内分泌学 (noi⁶ fan¹ bei³ hok⁶)

  Mandarin: 內分泌學 (zh), 内分泌学 (zh) (nèifēnmìxué)

• Czech: endokrinologie (cs) f
• Danish: endokrinologi c
• Finnish: endokrinologia (fi)
• French: endocrinologie (fr) f
• Galician: endocrinoloxía f
• German: Endokrinologie (de) f
• Greek: ενδοκρινολογία (el) (endokrinología)
• Hungarian: endokrinológia (hu)

• Icelandic: innkirtlafræði (is)
• Italian: endocrinologia (it) f
• Korean: 내분비학 (naebunbihak)
• Macedonian: ендокринологија f (endokrinologija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: endokrinologi m

• Portuguese: endocrinologia f
• Russian: эндокриноло́гия (ru) f (endokrinológija)
• Spanish: endocrinología (es) f