valvular
弁膜の
解説 Definition
心臓弁に関連する医学用語。心臓の弁膜障害や弁膜疾患を指します。
Valvular means related to a valve, especially a heart valve in medical contexts. It is often used when talking about how a valve works or about valve disease. This is a technical adjective most common in healthcare and biology.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
まず valve「弁」を確実に押さえると覚えやすい。valvular は「valve に関する形容詞」で、-ar / -ular が付くと「〜の、〜に関する」になりやすいと見ておくと他語にも応用できる。医学では heart valve と強く結びつき、valvular disease, valvular heart disease の形で頻出。vascular など似た形の語と混同しやすいが、valv- が見えたら「血管ではなく弁」と切り分けるのがコツ。
Focus on the base word `valve`. `Valvular` is the adjective meaning "related to a valve," and the ending `-ular` often does that job. It appears often in medical phrases like `valvular disease`, especially with the heart, so connect it strongly to `heart valve`.
例文
Valvular disease requires medical monitoring.
弁膜疾患は医学的監視が必要です。
The valvular problem affected his heart function.
その弁膜問題は彼の心臓機能に影響しました。
Valvular replacement surgery improved his condition.
弁膜置換手術は彼の状態を改善しました。
valvular の類義語・関連語
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valvular の語源・成り立ち Etymology
valvular は valve「弁」＋-ular で、valve はラテン語 valva「両開き戸の片側の扉」に由来します。開いたり閉じたりする仕組みが扉に似るため体内の弁にもこの語が使われ、「弁膜の」という意味になりました。関連語は valve, valvule。
Valvular comes from valve + -ular. Valve comes from Latin valva, meaning one leaf of a folding door, so the image was of something that opens and closes like a door. That idea later became the anatomical sense, and valvular came to mean "relating to a valve"; compare valve and valvule.
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