"thymus" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈθaɪ.məs/ Forms: thymuses [plural], thymi [plural]
enPR: thīʹməs Rhymes: -aɪməs Etymology: From New Latin thymus, from Ancient Greek θύμος (thúmos, “warty excrescence, (also, as used by Galen) thymus gland”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*dʰewh₂-}}, {{der|en|NL.|thymus}} New Latin thymus, {{der|en|grc|θύμος||warty excrescence, (also, as used by Galen) thymus gland}} Ancient Greek θύμος (thúmos, “warty excrescence, (also, as used by Galen) thymus gland”) Head templates: {{en-noun|+|thymi}} thymus (plural thymuses or thymi)
  1. (anatomy, immunology) Ellipsis of thymus gland (“A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes.”). Wikipedia link: Galen, thymus Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: thymus gland (extra: (“A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes.”).) Categories (topical): Anatomy, Immunology Derived forms: thymectomy, thymic Related terms: enthymeme, thyme, sweetbreads Translations (ductless gland located behind the breastbone): غُدَّة زَعْتَرِيَّة (ḡudda zaʕtariyya) [feminine] (Arabic), غُدَّة صَعْتَرِيَّة (ḡudda ṣaʕtariyya) [feminine] (Arabic), timus (Azerbaijani), çəngələbənzər vəzi (Azerbaijani), tim [masculine] (Catalan), timus [masculine] (Catalan), 胸腺 (xiōngxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), brzlík [masculine] (Czech), thymus [masculine] (Dutch), zwezerik [masculine] (Dutch), kateenkorva (Finnish), thymus [masculine] (French), Thymus [masculine] (German), Bries [neuter] (German), θύμος (thýmos) [masculine] (Greek), csecsemőmirigy (Hungarian), syänkorva (Ingrian), faireog thímis [feminine] (Irish), tímeas [masculine] (Irish), timo [masculine] (Italian), 胸腺 (kyōsen) (alt: きょうせん) (Japanese), айырша без (aiyrşa bez) (Kazakh), 흉선 (hyungseon) (Korean), തൈമസ് (taimasŭ) (Malayalam), rijênê tîmus [masculine] (Northern Kurdish), tîmus [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), brissel [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), grasica [feminine] (Polish), timo [masculine] (Portuguese), ти́мус (tímus) [masculine] (Russian), ви́лочковая железа́ (víločkovaja železá) [feminine] (Russian), timo [masculine] (Spanish), bräss [common-gender] (Swedish), thymus [common-gender] (Swedish), tymus [common-gender] (Swedish), timus (Turkish), tuyến ức (Vietnamese), timusse [masculine] (Walloon)

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        "Terms with Malayalam translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
        "Terms with Walloon translations",
        "en:Anatomy",
        "en:Immunology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 234",
          "text": "For a very long time the role of the thymus in the body was a complete mystery.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Ellipsis of thymus gland (“A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes.”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "immunology",
          "immunology"
        ],
        [
          "thymus gland",
          "thymus gland#English"
        ],
        [
          "breastbone",
          "breastbone"
        ],
        [
          "puberty",
          "puberty"
        ],
        [
          "lymphocyte",
          "lymphocyte"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy, immunology) Ellipsis of thymus gland (“A ductless gland, consisting mainly of lymphatic tissue, located behind the top of the breastbone. It is most active during puberty, after which it shrinks in size. It plays an important role in the development of the immune system and produces lymphocytes.”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "ellipsis"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "immunology",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Galen",
        "thymus"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈθaɪ.məs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aɪməs"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "thīʹməs"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḡudda zaʕtariyya",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "غُدَّة زَعْتَرِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḡudda ṣaʕtariyya",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "غُدَّة صَعْتَرِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "timus"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "çəngələbənzər vəzi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tim"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "timus"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiōngxiàn",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "胸腺"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brzlík"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "thymus"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zwezerik"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "kateenkorva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "thymus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Thymus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Bries"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "thýmos",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "θύμος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "csecsemőmirigy"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "syänkorva"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "faireog thímis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tímeas"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "timo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きょうせん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kyōsen",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "胸腺"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "aiyrşa bez",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "айырша без"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hyungseon",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "흉선"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rijênê tîmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tîmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "taimasŭ",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "തൈമസ്"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "brissel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "grasica"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "timo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tímus",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ти́мус"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "víločkovaja železá",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ви́лочковая железа́"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "timo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bräss"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "thymus"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tymus"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "timus"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "word": "tuyến ức"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "ductless gland located behind the breastbone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "timusse"
    }
  ],
  "word": "thymus"
}

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