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機序 (きじょ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

機き序じょ

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じょ

Meanings

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noun

Technical term used in medicine, biology, and engineering to describe the process or sequence of events by which something operates.

この病びょう気きの発はっ症しょう機き序じょはまだ解かい明めいされていない。
The mechanism of onset of this disease has not yet been elucidated.

Kanji

機loom, mechanism, machine
序preface, beginning, order

Similar words

メカニズム
メカニズム is a more general and common loanword for 'mechanism', while 機序 is a technical term used mainly in specialized contexts.

Etymology

Compound of 機 (ki, 'machine; mechanism') and 序 (jo, 'order; sequence'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning 'mechanism' in technical fields.