noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
Medical/technical term describing symptoms or conditions that mimic a true disease but are not caused by the same underlying pathology. Used attributively with の.
Pseudomyopia is a condition where temporary myopia-like symptoms appear.
医者は仮性の症状と診断した。
The doctor diagnosed it as false symptoms.
仮性 describes a condition that only resembles the real thing (e.g. 仮性近視), directly contrasting with 真性, which marks the genuine, true form of a condition (真性近視).
false phimosis; pseudophimosis
pseudomyopia; false nearsightedness
pseudohypertrophy of muscle
infantile pseudocholera
Compound of 仮 (temporary, provisional) and 性 (nature, property). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term is used in modern medical Japanese to describe conditions that are not true organic diseases.