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)

(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) (vahanagełj)
Asturian: tiroides f
Azerbaijani: qalxanabənzər vəzi
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 (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
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: kulangi
Thai: ต่อมไทรอยด์ (dtɔ̀m-tai-rɔɔi)
Tibetan: ལྦ་བ (lba ba)
Turkish: kalkan bezi (tr)
Ukrainian: щитоподі́бна за́лоза f (ščytopodíbna záloza)