A while ago I touched on Korean body vocab, now it’s time to dive deeper and go inside the body to the organs! I’ll cover Korean organ vocab from internal and external, along with bones, muscles, and more.
Learning these words, along with general body vocab over here, is helpful in medical situations but also can help during daily life. Simple things like “my stomach hurts” and “her muscles are sore” all the way to “he had to get heart surgery”. Now this isn’t an exhaustive list by any means but it’s something to get you started to understanding your body in Korean a little more!
장기: organ
뇌: brain
피부: skin
혀: tongue
이: teeth
편도선: tonsils
목구멍: throat
의이도: ear canal
고막: eardrum
부비동: sinuses
오장: internal organs
내장: viscera
폐: lung
간: liver
신장: kidney
맹장: appendix
비장: spleen
췌장: pancreas
쓸개: gallbladder
결장: colon
배: stomach
큰창자: large intestine
작은창자: small intestine
신경: nerve
척수: spinal cord
뼈: bone
갈비뼈: rib
관절: joint
힘줄: tendon
근육: muscle
You might notice the 장 repeating in the Korean organ vocab, and that actually comes from Hanja! The Sino-Korean origin is from 臟 which means internal organs.
심장: heart
피: blood (casual form)
혈액: blood (formal/medical)
혈액형: blood type
코피: nosebleed (lit. nose blood)
혈관: blood vessels
힘줄: tendon
정맥: vein
동맥: artery
난소: ovary
자궁: uterus
자궁경관: cervix
고환: testes
전립선: prostate
요도: urethra
방광: bladder
장: bowel
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