also: しょうかつ
diabetes (in traditional Chinese medicine)
A term from traditional Chinese medicine, corresponding to diabetes mellitus. Not used in modern Western medical contexts.
See also: 糖尿病
gonorrhea (in women, obsolete)
Obsolete term for gonorrhea in women, formerly used in traditional medical contexts. Replaced by modern terms such as 淋病.
See also: 淋病
In Kampo medicine, 消渇 is treated as a disease name corresponding to diabetes.
In old medical texts, gonorrhea in women was sometimes written as 消渇.
Modern medical term for gonorrhea; 消渇 is an obsolete term for the same condition in women.
Standard kanji form for the traditional Chinese medicine term.
Alternate reading restricted to the 消渇 spelling; less common than しょうかち.
Rare variant kanji form; 𤸎 is a non-Jōyō character.
From Chinese 消渴 (xiāokě), a traditional medical term for diabetes. The reading しょうかち is the go-on pronunciation; しょうかつ is a variant. The second sense (gonorrhea) is an obsolete Japanese extension.