tabes; phthisis; pulmonary tuberculosis
Medical term for wasting diseases, especially pulmonary tuberculosis. Archaic in modern clinical usage; now largely replaced by specific disease names like 肺結核.
労症 was once used as a medical term for pulmonary tuberculosis.
Standard kanji spelling for this medical term.
Alternate kanji spelling using the specific radical for 'wasting disease'; less common in modern usage.
An older medical term also written 癆症, from 癆 “wasting disease” and 症 “illness.” The spelling 労症 substitutes the common character 労 for 癆.