四し百ひゃく四し病びょう

noun

all manner of diseases; every kind of illness

A Buddhist term referring to the 404 ailments believed to afflict the human body, used figuratively to mean all possible diseases. Rare in modern everyday speech; mainly encountered in literary or religious contexts.

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、人にん間げんの体からだは四し百ひゃく四し病びょうに悩なやまされると説とかれる。

  In Buddhism, it is taught that the human body is afflicted by the 404 ailments.