労ろう症しょう

noun

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.

• 労ろう症しょうは、かつて肺はい結けっ核かくを指さす医い学がく用よう語ごとして使つかわれた。

  労症 was once used as a medical term for pulmonary tuberculosis.