労ろう咳がい

noun

pulmonary tuberculosis

Dated medical term for pulmonary tuberculosis, originally from traditional Chinese medicine. In modern Japanese, 肺結核 is the standard term.

• 労ろう咳がいは昔むかし、不ふ治じの病やまいと恐おそれられた。

  In the past, pulmonary tuberculosis was feared as an incurable disease.

• この小しょう説せつの主しゅ人じん公こうは労ろう咳がいを患わずらっている。

  The protagonist of this novel suffers from pulmonary tuberculosis.