Illustration: During a Japanese school science lesson, a student holds a removable heart from an anatomical torso model. The open torso clearly contains paired lungs, a liver and a stomach in their proper positions, with the heart's empty space between the lungs.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

器き官かん

kikan

organ

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしたちは内臓ないぞう器官きかんを調しらべるためにカエルを解剖かいぼうした。

    We dissected a frog to examine its internal organs.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 動物どうぶつについていえば鼻はな、または類似るいじ器官きかんが突つき出でた外見がいけんに因ちなむものが多おおい。

    As for animals, most references are related to those having a prominent nose or a similar organ.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 体からだが触ふれられたとき肌はだの感覚かんかく器官きかんは脳のうに信号しんごうを送おくり、エンドルフィンのような化学物質かがくぶっしつが放出ほうしゅつされる。

    When the body is touched, receptors in the skin send messages to the brain causing the release of chemicals such as endorphins.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 器官

  • 器utensil; vesselOnキKunうつわ
  • 官bureaucrat; the governmentOnカン

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