Japanese Word of the Day: Internal Organs
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sechan19五臓六腑 （ごぞうろっぷ） gozō roppu—
(lit. the five viscera [liver, lungs, heart, kidney, spleen] and six entrails [large intestine, small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, san jiao,* urinary bladder])
the internal organs; used in the phrase 五臓六腑が煮えくり返る (gozō roppu ga nie kurikaeru), meaning "to seethe with rage" (lit. to have one's internal organs boiling)
*the term san jiao (triple burner) refers to a metabolic system within the body that does not correspond to any particular organ in western medicine, but instead encompasses a number of them within the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic regions and controls such functions as digestion of food and the regulation of body temperature.
(lit. the five viscera [liver, lungs, heart, kidney, spleen] and six entrails [large intestine, small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, san jiao,* urinary bladder])
the internal organs; used in the phrase 五臓六腑が煮えくり返る (gozō roppu ga nie kurikaeru), meaning "to seethe with rage" (lit. to have one's internal organs boiling)
*the term san jiao (triple burner) refers to a metabolic system within the body that does not correspond to any particular organ in western medicine, but instead encompasses a number of them within the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic regions and controls such functions as digestion of food and the regulation of body temperature.
