adrenal

From ad- (“near”) +‎ renal (“pertaining to the kidneys”), from Latin rēn (“kidney”).

• RP: IPA^(key): /æˈdɹiːnəl/

  Rhymes: -iːnəl

adrenal (comparative more adrenal, superlative most adrenal)

1. Pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions.
   • 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 155:

     She seems to inhabit some fluid, crystalline medium. Pure adrenal dream.

2. Near the kidneys.

• suprarenal

adrenal (plural adrenals)

1. An adrenal gland.

• Alander

adrenal (first-person possessive adrenalku, second-person possessive adrenalmu, third-person possessive adrenalnya)

1. kidney gland

• ad-renal

adrenal m or f (plural adrenais)

1. adrenal (near the kidney)
2. adrenal (pertaining to adrenal glands)

From Latin ad- + renal.

• IPA^(key): /adɾeˈnal/ [a.ð̞ɾeˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧dre‧nal

adrenal m or f (masculine and feminine plural adrenales)

1. adrenal

• “adrenal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014