Dated medical term for gonorrhea; modern Japanese typically uses 淋病 (りんびょう) or the loanword ゴノレア.
See also: 淋病
The disease name 淋疾 is often seen in pre-war medical books.
Standard kanji form for this dated medical term.
Variant kanji form; the first character 痳 is less common than 淋.
From Chinese 淋疾 (línjí), a historical medical term for gonorrhea. The exact derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the disease.