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
• Bulgarian: щитови́дна жлеза́ f (štitovídna žlezá)
• Catalan: tiroide (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甲狀腺／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
• Indonesian: kelenjar tiroid
• Irish: faireog thíoróideach f
• Japanese: 甲状腺 (ja) (こうじょうせん, kōjōsen)
• Javanese: klanjer gondhok
• Korean: 갑상샘 (gapsangsaem)
• Latvian: vairogdziedzeris m
• Lithuanian: skydliaukė f
• Maori: repe tenga
• Marathi: अवटु ग्रंथी f (avṭu granthī)
• Mongolian: бамбай булчирхай (bambaj bulčirxaj)
• Navajo: alohkʼeʼ kʼaalógii nahalinígíí
• Occitan: tiroïde m
• Pannonian Rusyn: щитни шлїжнїк m (ščitni šljižnjik)
• Polish: tarczyca (pl) f
• Portuguese: tiroide (pt) f (Portugal), tireoide (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: tiroidă f, glandă tiroidă (ro) f
• Russian: щитови́дная железа́ (ru) f (ščitovídnaja železá)
• Spanish: tiroides (es) f, glándula tiroides
• Swedish: sköldkörtel (sv) c, tyreoidea (sv)
• Tagalog: tiroyde
• Thai: ต่อมไทรอยด์ (dtɔ̀m-tai-rɔɔi)
• Tibetan: ལྦ་བ (lba ba)
• Turkish: kalkan bezi (tr)
• Ukrainian: щитоподі́бна за́лоза f (ščytopodíbna záloza)
• Vietnamese: tuyến giáp
• Welsh: chwarren thyroid f

See also

• goitre

Further reading

• thyroid gland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia