Keshanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Mandarin 克山 (Kèshān).

発音

• 韻: -æn

固有名詞

Keshan

1. A county of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China.
   • [1980, Ramon H. Myers, “Economic Growth and Structural Change”, in The Chinese Economy Past and Present‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14:

     This same process occurred in villages founded in central and northern Manchuria. The fragmentation of a large estate can be observed in the case of the Chang household, which owned 1,080 hectares in K’o-shan county of Heilungkiang province in north Manchuria prior to 1911. By 1934 the Chang household owned none of this land. The estate had been sold off so that portions of it were claimed by 54 households, which ranged in size from 130 hectares to .13 hectares.]

   • 1994, John M. C. Gutteridge, Barry Halliwell, “Antioxidant vitamins and nutrients”, in Antioxidants in Nutrition, Health, and Disease‎, Oxford, New York, Tokyo: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 74:

     Keshan disease is a degenerative disease, particularly affecting the heart, that is prevented by supplementation of the diet with a selenium salt. The name comes from an episode in 1935 in which 57 out of 286 inhabitants of a village in Keshan County of Heilongjiang Province died of the disease.

派生語

Further reading

• Keshan, K'o-shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Keshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1540, column 2